Music has the unique capacity to bypass our thinking mind and alter our perceptions and emotions, whether we are aware it is happening or not. By operating on this level of consciousness and our psyche, music can shape who we think we are—our self-identity, how we see the world around us, and how we see ourselves fitting into that world. Therefore, music can help create empathy within us—the first step toward forgiveness. Music can help us melt resistance to love and deeper connections, allowing us to feel love more deeply and create stronger bonds with ourselves and others, not to mention to the divine source and creativity force that flows from that connection. We can use music to shift our emotions from anger and fear, to acceptance and love. Beyond the individual, and those direct personal relationships, we use music in combination with images and story to shift the audiences perceptions, emotions, and beliefs around an individual or an entire race or culture, transforming millions of people in a matter of minutes.

Music and art communicate the energy, intention, and message placed into them by the creators. It is the role and obligation of the creator to decide what they want the audience to think and feel. If that music or art are communicating hated, apathy, anger, or violence, then they will evoke those emotions in the consciousness of society. If the creator is committed to create beauty, wellbeing, and positive transformation in the audience, they have that option and control. Naturally, you and I prefer this choice, but it is not a default property for either music or art. So I feel what is more important to realize is how music and art communicate, and for us to take responsibility for what we create and what we choose to listen to, so we can be sure it is in alignment with our higher intention. This does not mean that expressing anger through music is bad, or that we should only listen to a particular kind of music. Rather, it means we should be conscious of why we chose what we chose and what it is doing to ourselves and others.

My creative development has informed my values by making me more conscious and sensitive to the subtle energies from which ideas emerge. My creative life and work has made me more open and appreciative of the differences between people and cultures, as it is the differences that inspire new ideas. I am more committed to creativity and co-creation as a way of living, rather than simply a craft or profession. My creative life is my life. It allows me to change routine into ritual and function into beauty. As important, my values inform my creativity. I create from a deep desire to bring value into the world. That might be in the form of a message, joy, movement, inspiration, beauty, access to deeper spiritual connection, empathy building between cultures, bringing myself and others back to a state of composure during times of stress, or a number of other ways that I see I can serve through the music, and the music can serve through me.