If you are making smart decisions and doing the right things in the correct order and dedicating yourself to something, the success is inevitable.

In order to function and pay our bills and our taxes and feed our families and stuff, musicians have to make a living. It's not about being a millionaire. It's about being able to survive. When there are people constantly stealing from you, it's quite frustrating. It's a matter of changing the public's option about doing it.

I was raised on piano and saxophone and jazz music for ten or twelve years. Before I even picked up a bass. My whole family has always pushed the arts, you know? My brother is a doctor of music and my cousin is an opera singer over in Austria. Arts were always a big thing in our family.

You won't walk into a store and steal food. But people think it's ok to steal music.

There's always going to be haters. And the more hate you get, the better you are doing.