My musical influences growing up were limited to Korean folk songs and hymns as I went to a Christian boarding school where I was not allowed to listen to secular music.

I learned to sing as I was learning to talk.

I grew up learning martial arts in Korea; my dad actually brought in an Olympic instructor to teach me as a teenager.

It's so astounding the amount of sacrifice the astronauts have to go through to do what they do and all the science involved in space exploration.

Cartola is an artist from Brazil who didn't record until much later in his life, but had a big influence on a lot of famous artists down there, like Gilberto Gil. I discovered his music recently when I was in Brazil.

I've always worked on all different types of music, some with specific project goals and deadlines and some not. Sometimes I would write a piece of music that is almost like a film score or weird electro pieces, wherever the muse took me, and I still do that.

When I was younger, I would write a ton, mostly because my mom told me I had incredible creativity and a gift of using words, only these were words that didn't get me in trouble.

A writer is an artist. They're creating things out of thin air.