An entertainment industry executive with a broad range of titles including award-winning songwriter, award-winning author, independent record label president, executive TV producer, entertainment consultant, former Senior VP of A&R for Dolly Parton's management company, and a serial entrepreneur. He has also secured record deal offers with CEOs from the largest music companies in the world, including Capitol Records, Sony, Interscope, Island / Def Jam, Epic, Atlantic, and RCA. He wrote a #1 Billboard hit and was even nominated for a Latin music award.
"Those were the two early sparks for me, was, my dad's record collection and those vinyl record sleeves on the wall of my friend's bedroom."
"The record by Def Leppard, Hysteria, that record actually just cemented it for me. When I heard that record, that was the most impactful musical moment of my young life... That record actually got really used in my life and I would say very strongly that that record saved my life as a kid."
"The biggest driver for me, doing what I do is to work hard to create music that can truly save lives and change lives."
"We started writing songs when we were (age) 13... and then when I turned 15, I had an acoustic guitar... and that really is when I got very serious about songwriting... By the time I landed my first song on a record it had been eight, nine, ten years of writing just hundreds and hundreds of songs."
"Before I knew it, I started landing several of the songs I'd written over the years on records, especially in that first, I would say, twelve months, I think I landed probably seven songs on records."
"One constant that I have seen over the years is, whether you spend ten years writing or you write with somebody else, whatever, I've learned over and over and over again that when you have the right song things just happen."
"I do feel that there is an art to getting a record deal and I feel that that is an art I have massively focused my time and energy and resources into figuring out over these years."
"I think artists should be working on their voice six days a week."
"If you're doing this by yourself, you are going to have to really be committed to the craft of writing songs everyday."
"Working with songwriters and producers has always been a major passion of mine."