“Does art influence life or does life influence art?” I constantly find myself, when I'm watching movies, pausing it because still-frames in movies have such a nice composition that I think I notice it and I'm like “somebody should paint that” or I should show my students, maybe they wanna paint that. I think music, in a way, can influence the way that you work. If you’re somebody that paints things that are more abstract and more free-flowing then-you know, and this is sort of how abstract art got started. Painting and drawing historically were for the purpose of documentation and things like that. And then people started to use art as more of an art form, where it was like “I'm gonna express myself or do something random.” So a lot of your older, abstract pieces were inspired and influenced by jazz music and the way that the paint was applied would mimic the tempo and the melody of the music, so there's a huge crossover there. But I don't necessarily find myself extremely influenced in the art that I make, but I do enjoy painting with music on. I think it just helps kinda-eh it sort of seems like a full process. Like I'm taking in, unconsciously taking in somebody else's art and their product. And you could argue that it kind of comes through me and influences what I'm doing, no way to prove it but it is something that I do.