I drew most of my creativity from my own life experiences. As a three year-old, I would come home from church, go directly to the piano, and pick out the notes to hymns I liked - one note at a time. When I was five,I began taking piano lessons, and I continued the lessons until the age of thirteen. At that age, I became bored playing classical music and disliked having to play songs for competitions in front of judges. So, I quit. That is, I quit piano lessons - but never stopped playing the piano. Through the remainder of my adolescence and on into adulthood, I also learned to play the keyboard which allowed me to experiment with various other instrumental and computer sounds.

Although my songs contain many instrumental sounds, when composing, I always seem to go back to the piano first. That's where it all started - with the piano, when I was a child - playing one note at a time.