Distributing the music is so easy it's moot. So now the delicate art of calling attention to your music means everything. Marketing is distribution.

For some reason, ever since I was a little kid, I wake with the most energy of the day, and it slowly declines from there.

The purpose of money is to trade for things that make you happy. So if you can bypass money and get directly to the happy, you've saved a lot of trouble. And it makes others happier, too, when you organize your business around non-monetary things.

I'm so into music that I just stop and listen, whenever there's music on. That's the problem with being a musician for so long. I can get lost in the bassline, fascinated with the arrangement, curious about the production. I can't shut it out.

When I was a child, I was referred to as the Danny Kaye of the family, because I was always impersonating and mimicking people. I was a song and dance man.

I had dreamed of visiting Bali for many years and because I had an extended family of Balinese friends in Los Angeles, I felt connected. The island is so peaceful and the smiles are constant.

My family is filled with amazingly talented painters, musicians, vocalists.

I only have two things in my life, my family and work. If there's any time left over, then I play sports.