Music is as integral to me as my own DNA. My life has become a continual soundtrack, with music underscoring the most powerful and even the most banal moments of my life.

From my perspective, music allows me to escape from the world of what is happening right in front of me... to the world of my thoughts, my dreams, my hopes and ideas - for the world, for my own life, for the day, even for the moment.

The most powerful thing we own is our vote.

Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.

My life and career is my own adventure.

Freedom carries sacrifice,