I've spoken to student leaders from both the African-American and Hispanic communities. I encourage them to not pass up on being in engaged in everything from drama to student government.

Their two go-to guys took over from there. They both showed why they're all-state players.

I work on words quite separately to music. They're both ongoing, and I don't ever feel like I'm working in a cycle in that respect, because it's every day anyway, no matter what I'm doing. Then I get to a point when I've collected together enough words that seem like they want to be songs rather than poems, or sometimes not.

You may never get quiet time for reflection away from emails and the phone, if you do not take positive steps to be in control of both your time and the technology.