Love and forgiveness are two life-altering words, which music embraces in a unique way. From Pop to Classical, music stirs the heart and caresses the very essence of these words, perhaps like no other art form. My music is often called “heart” music, and I embrace this wholeheartedly. The music that I compose is really a soundtrack to my heart, whether Love or Forgiveness, or any other emotion that I might be going through.

Sometimes it is the very presence of music itself that can evoke these emotions, a kind of aesthetic chicken and egg situation, where which came first is not always clear. Placing beauty in the world is one of my own personal missions, and indeed why I am an artist. If one’s art, music in my case, can even in the slightest way, change a person’s being, or help them find a place they were unable to before, then I feel I have achieved my mission.

As for my own music, I do not question where it comes from, and I do not analyse it. My music, and I don’t really think it is mine, it comes through me, is not cerebral in any sense. Other than the melody which drives most of my music, it has to have, however, a sense of emotional logic.

As Mozart said about melody, “the notes have to kiss one another” and I hope mine do! The challenge is to feel what I write, and write what I feel, to capture those feelings in sound, and make the music available to anybody who might like to enjoy it. Hopefully to transform the listener, and give the person a life experience. Communication of the heart is perfectly spoken by the language of music, including love and forgiveness, some of the most significant words in our lives.