Why do you create and play music?

I make music for the joy and love of the music itself that lives in me. I make music because I must, even as I must eat or sleep. It is so entirely a part of me that, at times, I feel like I am the music and that I live just to live "IT"! I need music to be, to live, just as I need food or water.

What do you feel when you create and play your music?

When I sit to play my music, I just let go and allow the music to play me. I listen to the melodies that magically flow through me and then I play them as I hear them flowing with the feelings that the chords and movements create within me. The music speaks to my soul and heart, and it is alive, and it breathes as I breathe it in and then out again, as the song dictates. I believe that within all of us, music flows as Spirit and, as we live, we create our own melodies, our very own "song of our lives." Shall we say that represents the very essence of our life with all its joys and sorrows, laughter and pain, etc. As we live, we create that melody, and one day we will hear it played within our souls. I love playing music as much as I love breathing, for in reality, to me, it is one and the same.

What do you want people to feel or receive from your music?

I would love to have people just let go of their worries and problems and allow the music to flow into their souls to help them realize that they are loved and held safely in the hands of Spirit. I would love people to let the melodies take them to a kinder, more loving place, even if just for a moment while the music plays.

People need to find the time to relax in their busy lives, and healing music can help them get out of their heads and into their hearts. It can lead them into their soul space where they find that life is more about finding the love within them and less about running here and there trying to find happiness outside themselves.

How do you want your music to live on after you are gone?

I would love my music to live on in the hearts and minds of those whose lives have been touched by it. I would love to leave this life knowing and believing that through my life and my music, this world has been changed, helped, uplifted in some small way. I would love to look back and know that my life was not in vain and that people were helped to feel more love, more joy within them through experiencing the melodies that flowed through me to them, to their hearts and souls.