Born on February 23rd

"Jazz is the art of thinking out loud."

"Ideas come through us, not from us."

"Creative thinking inspires ideas. Ideas inspire change."

"Jazz can be a blank canvas full of possibilities."

"Imagination needs to be fed."

"Be drawn to the visual arts for it can expand your imagination."

"Jazz vision is a wordless conversation between musical notes and visual expressions."

"Jazz vision is the fusion of music and art a real paradox of same-yet different. Here we play in exchanges, like the hardness of the key of c# major and from the softness of Db major - capturing, reflecting and improvising."

"Jazz vision for me is seeing my art in musical term. It offers me an visual expressions in an ever-changing musical palette."

"If you look at how beautiful the eye can be, it has its own inside patterns and colors."

"This is about relationships, about the placement of potent colors and the canvas sparkling through. I want the eye to dance across the canvas but direct you, too."

"Most of the time, I never go back. I leave my brush mark and move on."

"There's a moment of awe when you watch the colors dry and become lighter."

"Color is a passion; painting is a passion."

"I got ice in my veins!"

"When you find your niche, you just gotta continue to be confident and thrive in it."

"No matter what the circumstances, you always enjoy being around guys that you bond with, win, lose, whatever it may be."

"I always prided myself in being different."

"As far as coming out on top with the right mentality and it molding you into the best human being you can be, I think that's what Brooklyn did for me. I became an All-Star, I got to touch the playoffs. To get a piece of that, I'm forever thankful."

"I really didn't get to experience college. I enjoyed Ohio State, but I didn't feel like I had a chance to live the college life. When some guys got bored, they went out partying or to the student center. When I got bored, I went to the gym."

"The league has changed in so many ways. There are no point guards anymore, there are no centers anymore; it's all positionless basketball."

"My family is my biggest critic."

"Like, if you get close enough to me you'll see how I really am."

"If I've lost anyone's trust, I'm going to work my tail off to get it back."

"I can control how much work I put in for me to be consistent."

"I always had the confidence. The platform, guys getting injured and giving me multiple opportunities, that has allowed me to showcase it."

"Not a lot of teams take you into consideration, like a lot of teams can easily decide to if you're hurt or anything, make you go play."

"The older you get, the more you start to understand your body, so I try to just focus on my body every summer."

"It's hard to be so mentally competitive and when you're not competing you try to turn it off but it doesn't work like that. I don't think you can just turn it off, I think you still find ways to be competitive - if it's playing a video game, if it's playing cards."

"I'm a dog lover - I've had them since I was younger."