But what was my motivation was music, and the fact that I love to move around. I'm always moving around.
I would love to make my music and be completely anonymous, but that doesn't work. You can't have success and be faceless.
I have many musical inspirations, but I would really love to just be me. My very own artist.
My style is boho chic. I love that time period - the patterns, the prints, the people, the music, the vibe.
I like and I love everything that has to do with cinema: writing, directing, editing, creating music, and even acting.
While most of the music I write is instrumental, I love to use the human voice as another instrument.
Distance doesn't exist, in fact, and neither does time. Vibrations from love or music can be felt everywhere, at all times.
What you see with your eyes when you're making music is going to have a profound effect on what you hear.
There is something comforting about going into a practice room, putting your sheet music on a stand and playing Bach over and over again.
So long as the human spirit thrives on this planet, music in some living form will accompany and sustain it and give it expressive meaning.
My style is part of the music I like, the bands I see, the people I surround myself with, the places I go to.
I'm touched by Jon Hendricks. I want some of my music to reflect that. And when I write, you're going to hear it.
I just like music all the way around the board. I can't stick to one thing - I've got to move around.
Singing instrumental music is most important because, while you play an instrument, you are singing through the instrument... actually, you are singing inside.
It's not until I hear songs that I've done, that I realize how much of an inspiration music from the '60s and '70s has been.
I think the difficult thing is the transition between TV competition series and going into the actual music industry. There still seems to be a slight disconnect there.
There's nothing but spirit in music. That's all it is. Yeah, there's a lot of intellectual elements to it, but no matter how you approach it, it's all spirit.
A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.
My daughter plays keyboard very well, and my son plays guitar, and they're totally into music.
That can definitely mess with your music - if you overthink. 'What's radio going to think?' or 'What are these people going to think?'
Even though music is something I travel around doing, it is also a very private thing. A sort of escapism.
