Hawaii is paradise. It sounds cheesy to say it, but there's music in the air there.
I think that success is having fun.
Easy come, easy go,That's just how you live, oh,Take, take, take it all,But you never give.Should've known you was troubleFrom the first kiss,Had your eyes wide open.Why were they open?Gave you all I...
In my songs, I'm not saying something that's never been said before. The have lyrics aren't going to blow people away. It's the emotion and the melody that drive it home.
My father moved to Hawaii from Brooklyn and my mother came there as a child from the Philippines. They met at a show where my dad was playing percussion. My mom was a hula dancer.
Ever since I was a kid, this was all I wanted to do. I've wanted to do music. I wanted to sing. It's all I know.
Music is not math. It's science. You keep mixing the stuff up until it blows up on you, or it becomes this incredible potion.
Becoming famous was never what I wanted to do. There's a lot of things that come with fame - it's what people in the limelight have to do.