“I did voice training and piano lessons, and while I was a decent musician.”

I think musicians are perfect at knowing how to get the best out of other musicians. I can really relate to that communion.

Something respected, was the most important thing to do with your life.

100 percent, my whole life. I went to school, I did music theory,

As a kid, I wasn’t given the sense that celebrity, or fame or any of that,

Was something to be impressed by, or to seek out. It was always impressed upon me that making something well crafted

I felt like I wanted to make more than just music.

I’m pretty committed to being a filmmaker because it incorporates everything I love: music, art direction, story, and you know – everything.

And I try to preserve whatever’s of value and achievable in their idea.

I’ve never made a video where I didn’t talk to the artist before I wrote the treatment.

Basically, I enter into it knowing we are collaborators.

I always wanted to be a musician.

And I’ve tried to do that where I can in my field.

If it’s something I can’t achieve, I tell them straight.

Otherwise they’re not going to feel great when they’re up there miming it.

My process in making a music video is pretty much a formula of talking to the artist.

It didn’t seem like enough for me.

No matter what you do, you’ll never run away from you.

Michael Jackson wanted to be in Men in Black II. He told me he had seen the first Men in Black in Paris and had stayed behind and sat there and wept.

Music proposes. Sound disposes.

I tried to give my career a shot from Barranquilla, but the musicians would never show up. It was just not taken seriously.

For musicians, Musikfest is the most cool event.

A lot of musicians talk about how they were into music from the start; they always wanted to be musicians. It wasn’t like that for me. I didn’t think of it as a job or a career – it was just something that was constant.

I hope to be a writer and musician my whole life, fingers crossed.

I don’t want to be a musician’s musician. I want to be an everyone’s musician.