Kids deserve arts, and it's just as important as science, math, history, English or athletics.

A big part of my life is music education because it changed my life - but arts, academics and athletics should all be equally treated in the school.

We do like to show our kids how math and science is used in real life. A lot of the people we invited are experts or have knowledge of a craft that we as teachers might not have access to (so) this gives the students something extra.

Music is made up out of these building blocks. Studying how these blocks go together and what they consist of and the math of how it works - it's all the same stuff; it's just different aesthetics that we're talking about.

What we want to do is get the parents and kids together and taking part in math and science. Our goal is to keep parents involved in the schools and to make it fun.

When you make music, you're forming these invisible vibrations in the air into different shapes and consistencies and speeds in order to create music, and understanding how the math of that works just gives you more colors to paint with, and allows you to get to what you want quicker.