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

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’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.

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

It didn’t seem like enough for me.

For me, I never ever felt the ownership or any identity with any community of disabilities. I didn’t grow up being told that I was a disabled child.

Everyone felt like they knew Ray Charles and in a way they did, because he was embodied by his music.

There was a time when the music fell silent. Both within me and around me.

I felt like it was really about people and how decisions and circumstances can change relationships.

If you know nothing, it could be like an enemy in a way. I think that’s the way I felt when I was young.

When I found those things, I felt liberated. I found resilience of spirit, realized I had much to offer and gained abundance.

In its restraint, should be only felt but not perceived by the reader.

If you pursued something that you felt strongly about, then I call that success.