I've always just adored music. It's my first love, really. I admire and respect people in the music business. You really have to work hard and diligently. Sometimes actors can be lazy and get away with it, but you can't do that if you're a musician.

Swimming upstream in the music business is a hard thing to do.

Ensuring that everyone has great trails to ride is an essential part of our business. By honoring the hard work of key advocates coast-to-coast, we hope to inspire even more volunteerism and stewardship.

Trying harder is an attitude rather than a string of activities. It's determination not simply doing more.

Music is always there, but if you're asking me my first love, it's film.

I'm not in the music business; I'm in music, ... What I love to do has evolved, technically and harmonically, but it's not as marketable. This record company isn't for trying to make commercial records for a particular market. It's an outlet to expose the music and energy I believe in – and for those who are looking for something more, it offers an option.