"When I play live, I feel how the audience is going and follow and lead at the same time."

"Finally, I was no longer a student and was making music for myself."

"I've never personally criticized anyone else's music, but I know that the public's real problem is not the music I make but the perception that I play simple music for money only and for the notoriety and to increase my popularity."

"That's my ideal day, time with my boys."

"What is music anyway? It's a form of communication, and that's why I play the kind of music that I think - that I hope - can communicate with people."

"I'm responsive to my public, but I also follow my heart."

"Just because people play songs with great technique doesn't mean the records are better."

"The whole rise of new adult contemporary music and smooth jazz was a nice surprise."

"It wasn't until Duotones that I felt my true voice come out."

"I've learned that you simply can't control those bad vibes."

"I really create everything I do from the heart."

"The Moment is an album that contains the best music I have ever produced."

"Being a purely instrumental album, it makes a musical statement, not a religious one, and I hope that people can feel the emotion of the great melodies, even without the words."

"I learned so much about playing and touring being on the road and in the studio with Jeff, but I'd always played a lot of gigs in Seattle even prior to joining the Fusion."

"I approach everything in my life the same way; if it feels right, I know it."