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

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 try to bring musicians into the logistics of filmmaking.

Musicians ultimately are who they are, they aren’t actors, so as a clipmaker you have a responsibility to protect them.

Smoke Signals really mirrored the way I grew up and how I felt, and that movie was the first time I’d dealt with my parents’ death and how I felt that loss and sadness and anger.

She felt the familiar calmness of an emergency, but she understood the falseness of that feeling, now that it was her life at stake.

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.