Learn the rules and learn the game, before you start breaking the rules and start trying to change the game. Your education, experience, and understanding of what was and what is, will give you the best foundation and chance to change what will be.”

“If you don’t know your tendencies and can’t analyze when you are most effective, then how can you get the most done in the least amount of time with the best results?”

“Keep the momentum while you are moving to guarantee additional motion and momentum.”

“Are you joining a conversation or taking it over? Stay aware of how you join a conversation and of your effect on a conversation.”

“The most devastating thing artists can do to their career is get in their own way, and way too many people do. It’s not the labels, the industry, the fans, the cities, the economy, the social media, the marketing, the promoting, the “right time,” the music, or whatever other excuse you can come up with that determines whether you succeed or you fail. It is you—no one else.”

“Your mistakes aren’t learning experiences…if you aren’t learning from them.”

“Use authentic channels and honesty to market your products to build authority.”

“Your actions and approach with what you have will showcase to others what you would be able to do with more.”

“Waiting to be discovered, hoping to be seen, wishing someone else would do the work, wanting to make it big while dreaming of being rich and famous just like your heroes is submissive, passive, foolish, weak, and ineffective. Take your desire for your dreams, your goals, and your ambition, then make them fuel for the fire to light your ass up, to get to work and on the path to make it happen.”

“Carrying someone else’s weight is only going to weigh down on you and add stress, frustration, and pain. Choose who you work with and play with wisely.”