My writing voice is a little quirkier, more singer-songwriter-y than the Top 40 stuff I cover.

If you have music that sounds like what you cover, people won't be able to differentiate who you are.

I was going to go to college and graduate and move to New York and do the Broadway thing. That's where a lot of my influences vocally and writing come from. Then I did some covers, and towards the end of college, I saw it was a path I could take. I wrote more pop music.

There's a lot more to publishing a book than writing it and slapping a cover on it.

There are certainly things labels can still provide that indie artists can't. They can pave the way to radio and pay big bucks for promotion.

Up until I started on YouTube, my first love was musical theater.