"You can fool a person into going to see a movie with a good trailer."

"Music is the one part of the entertainment business where you can't fool anybody into buying a record."

"Art is something that opens up and enhances your emotions and that's what I like to think I'm doing."

"I think the hardest thing to overcome is judging yourself and being your own worst critic so to speak."

"Art, well good art at least, takes you to a place you go during the experience of it, and then after you experience it you are different."

"It feels like my job is to support people. I support great artists. When I worked with a symphony, I sat in the third chair, not the first chair."

"Any real record person knows that the number one most powerful marketing tool when it comes to music is repetition."

"With Sumthin Else Music Works, I wanted to spread the love and give newcomers a chance to make it because something that really helped me were all the people who had given me an opportunity when I was putting my career together."