I just wanted to keep growing and touring with my band.

I was put on so many different musical stages growing up that I didn't think about what kind of music we played. I just thought music was music.

I got a chance to work with Mystikal and Mannie Fresh and Juvenile and all these people as I was growing up, and so that really influenced everything I do.

Everything is a learning experience for me.

I get to travel, see the world, meet people and be independent. I feel blessed.

I would love to do something that takes me on an adventure. I really want to do it all.

Schubert had arguably the same melodic gift as Mozart, but even less support. He didn't have the early exposure, never got to travel anywhere, and yet generated and amassed a body of work that grew and developed and is very profound.

Despite living in this post-9/11 age of transnational terrorism, the risk of death during air travel has plummeted to the point where we now measure it in the 'per billions' of passengers.