I can look back over my earlier music, and it takes me back to the place I was emotionally.
I'm a bit of a perfectionist, and I want to give 100 percent to everything.
When you're making music or playing a song, I find the moments when there are no instruments being played even stronger than when they are being played. Because they add tension. It's also an ego-less thing - a place where you have no ego - when you're with a bunch of musicians who stop and listen instead.
In a sense, I'm always hearing music of some sort, whether it's people talking or surface noise or whatever, because there is no privacy. So when I'm by myself, I just kind of like to be and reflect, and I can't do that when I'm listening to music. Because it's someone else's reflections, not mine.
I have the ability, no matter what's going on in my life, to find something - my cup is always half full.
I think... I'm perceived as an everyperson. There is no pedestal. I'm no different from anybody else.
I'm not online. I'm not on Facebook much. I don't connect that way.
Having the opportunity to express myself through music has been extremely cathartic for me my entire life.
