“Music allows me to disconnect from my present reality, and communicate to my future wisdom.”

“I'm living in the future so the present is my past.
My presence is a present, kiss my ass.”

“The past is wisdom.
The present is love.
The future is possibilities.”

“Through instrumental music, I’m allowed to come up with musical ideas that allow the listener to create their own impression of my song. If you add lyrics about a girl in the song, the listener doesn’t have a choice of what the song is about, it’s told to them. My musical writings allow me to express anything. It’s easier for me to tell a story of something I’ve encountered this way then to verbalize it. And my feelings are explored more in my compositions compared to what I could ever say in a few sentences.”

“Music is nothing separate from me. It is me. I can't retire from music any more than I can retire from my liver. You'd have to remove the music from me surgically — like you were taking out my appendix.”

“I learned that what happened to me did not have to define who I was. My past could not control my future unless I allowed it to.”

“The whole series of my life appeared to me as a dream; I sometimes doubted if indeed it were all true, for it never presented itself to my mind with the force of reality.”

“I’d spent my entire life overdosing on uncut escapism, willingly allowing fantasy to become my reality.”

“It taught me that I had a lot more discipline than I thought; a lot more patience. [I became] more expressive, not only personally with my family, but in my music and my way of communicating.”

“My past, O Lord, to Your mercy; my present, to Your love; my future to Your providence.”