Bi-coastal singer, songwriter, and guitar player, who has a music publishing company, recording studios in Tampa and L.A., a weekly radio show, co-authored a book that was released this past February, and is even involved in film and fashion. Music-wise, he just completed a score for a new movie, writing a few of the songs with Billy Corgan from Smashing Pumpkins. He has also had multiple song placements on the Food Network. And he has shared the stage with the likes of John Fogerty and Paul Anka, and has even written with artists from Boyz II Men to Plain White Ts to Candlebox.
"I just decided I wanted to make music that really spoke to me that, I wasn't trying for a record deal. I wasn't trying to please anybody. I didn't care about someone else's demographic."
"You gotta do the work. And the way you get connected, is, you do the work. You be good."
"If you're not the best musician in the room, you're not the smartest in the room, you're not the most well-connected, that's okay. Be the quietest. But have something to say. When you speak have something to say. Be a really great hang."
"I've never once asked any of my famous friends for a photo. And I think that makes them go, 'Okay, he's not just trying to get something from me'."
"I would always say, put a time limit on something. Because just knowing that there's an end time forces you to do the work."
"Fall forward. It's okay to fall, just try to do it going forward."
"The thing about this industry is, we're all a dime a dozen."
"You've gotta find what you do well and then you've gotta hone that, like a sharp knife. And then you also have to sort of, you knock off all the edges."
"If someone ever says to you, 'Well what's your style' and you go, 'Oh, I don't know, I'm a little of everything,' you're dead in the water. Nobody cares about, 'I'm a little of everything.' Pick a side and be the champion of that."
"I just love to wake up every day and be charged and then basically fall into bed, like, collapse into bed because I've just exhausted my day. I just know we're gonna be dead longer than we're alive and I just try to be alive."
"Why do you do good things? You don't need a reason."
"And Then We Were"
"We Don't Need a Reason"
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