“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.

I feel right now exactly the way I felt after I finished mixing my first solo album ‘New York Groove’.

I felt like we needed motivation for the type of situation we’re in nowadays.

Even without words, our march was worship. I felt my legs were praying.

Then came the healing time, hearts started to shine, soul felt so fine, oh what a freeing time it was.

I’ve always felt that a person’s intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the same topic.

Drama is like a dream, it is not real, but it is really felt.

Then the fear all humans felt when met with Death’s gaze came over his face. That’s right buddy, I’m Death, now move away from my girl.

My preference would have been to not go back on the air after 911, at all until the time felt right but that wasn’t an option.