The Moment is an album that contains the best music I have ever produced.

Finally, I was no longer a student and was making music for myself.

The whole rise of new adult contemporary music and smooth jazz was a nice surprise.

Being a purely instrumental album, it makes a musical statement, not a religious one, and I hope that people can feel the emotion of the great melodies, even without the words.

What is music anyway? It’s a form of communication, and that’s why I play the kind of music that I think – that I hope – can communicate with people.

I really create everything I do from the heart.

I learned so much about playing and touring being on the road and in the studio with Jeff, but I’d always played a lot of gigs in Seattle even prior to joining the Fusion.

I’ve learned that you simply can’t control those bad vibes.

It wasn’t until Duotones that I felt my true voice come out.

Just because people play songs with great technique doesn’t mean the records are better.

I approach everything in my life the same way; if it feels right, I know it.

I’m responsive to my public, but I also follow my heart.

I’ve never personally criticized anyone else’s music, but I know that the public’s real problem is not the music I make but the perception that I play simple music for money only and for the notoriety and to increase my popularity.

The Moment is an album that contains the best music I have ever produced.

That’s my ideal day, time with my boys.

When I play live, I feel how the audience is going and follow and lead at the same time.