My goal with this album was to write songs that are fun for you to listen to, inspire you, and reveal a deeper understanding of our life's journey each time you hear them. I endeavored to write songs that had a strong message, whilst not being too spiritual, you would connect with. So whether I have accomplished that is something for you to judge.

"Life 101" encapsulates what I believe to be the basic life lessons. It is often not until we sit and review with hindsight what we know, that we realise just how much we have learned.

The greatest gift I can give to each of you is my life's experience, without the pain that came from my journey. This is what I have tried to create with the album. I hope that through my music you are able to be empowered. This album has created for me an amazing environment to learn about myself. To work through my fear of showing the world my true essence. My lesson from this project was to give from an open loving heart and to have a meaningful voice. Most people would tell you that I have always had a very big voice that I am loud and boisterous and that can be true. But over the past five years I have learned an excruciating lesson, how to have a real voice, one that expresses my inner most feelings and emotions and a quiet loving voice with which I truly connect to people.

It is through relationships that we learn the most about ourselves, our needs, our desires and how to love without judgment. In relationships I have made some horrible choices, inflicted enormous pain on people I loved and created havoc in my life. I am glad it was not in vain for I have learnt, learnt to love honestly and without condition and learnt to accept nothing less for myself.

For me, the most inspiring passage on this album is from its title track:

"I wanna ride on the edge of life
Reach up high and touch the sky
Find the truth of misery
Break its neck and set it free
I wanna sleep with angel wings
Wrapped around my earthly body
Live my life with open arms
Embraced by life 101"                             (full lyrics)

If each of us could find a way to live in our own truth, to be responsible for our own lives and to love unconditionally, we could heal this planet in an instant. For all of us everyday things happen: both "good" and "bad". We like to take credit for the good things, but chose to look for someone other than ourselves to be responsible for the bad; all that creates is a victim. For me "Victim" is probably the nastiest word in the English language, because it is the most disempowering word there is. If you feel connected to, or inspired by this album, then I will be a very happy man.

This is my gift to you.