“Hawaii is paradise. It sounds cheesy to say it, but there’s music in the air there.”

It’s dedicating yourself to your craft. Spending thousands of hours in a studio learning how to write a song, learning how to play different chords, training yourself to sing. You know, to get better and better.

I signed up to be a musician, I want to perform, I want to sing.

Every artist should want to be like Michael Jackson.

I can show you in music better than I can tell you in words.

My dream was to not get a day job but to sleep, wake up and do my music. I want to keep that dream forever.

I’ve definitely seen bands before they made money kind of change their thing on the next tour, and I prefer it when it’s a little more raw.

If perfect’s what you’re searching for, then just stay the same.

I want there to be a piece of me in my music, you know? I genuinely believe that’s the secret of all the success that’s happened (for me).

Writing for other artists helped me figure out that magic you have to capture to make everyone connect with a song.

I really wish I knew what I was doing because I’d be writing hit songs every minute.

I love doing shows. I love rocking shows. I love playing instruments. I love singing. If I can find a way to do that and feed my family, then I’m a happy man.

When everything in life gets so complicated it only takes a day to change it.

Be in control. Know who you are. And don’t try to be different just to be different.

In Hawaii, some of the biggest radio stations are reggae. The local bands are heavily influenced by Bob Marley.

Never had much faith in love or miracles, Never wanna put my heart on the line.

I got so much love for classical music and I hear so much incredible music.You should know a bunch of music and have respect for all sorts of genres and styles of music.

If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.

Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.

Absence is a house so vast that inside you will pass through its walls and hang pictures on the air.

We have flown the air like birds and swum the sea like fishes, but have yet to learn the simple act of walking the earth like brothers.

Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children’s future. And we are all mortal.

We are dust and to dust return. In the end we’re neither air, nor fire, nor water, just dirt, neither more nor less, just dirt, and maybe some yellow flowers.

Take bread away from me, if you wish, take air away, but do not take from me your laughter.

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.