Sun Tzu said “know thy self, know thy enemy.”  I wrote ‘Need to Know’ years before John Newman’s song.  I know my honed skills, and I know my unwavering discipline is what fuels me to write and perform music.  It will never stop.  My creativity will endure long after other artists wither and fade.  Universal heard my music years before they gave it to John Newman to record.  It was my song.  I wrote it.  But when they heard it, they quietly kept it, and then tried to pawn it off to a lesser artist who clearly could not make...

If you steal from Team Apps, we will find out.  And when we do, we will come after you legally and very publicly. We now have safeguards in place, and the right lawyers, so we will never stop until we win. We enjoy collaborating with other artists, and we love creating music, but if the corporations or the powers-that-be decide to ever again steal our music, we won’t care about their excuses.  We will fight them at every turn.  We exposed John Newman as a plagiarizing hack, who lacks the genuine talent Team Apps has consistently demonstrated year in and...

Q: What is going on with your lawsuit against Universal? A:  I had – and still have – a great case… but there were complexities in the legal system and the court rules, that weren’t considered by my attorney, and my case was thrown out before I even got to a jury.   Unbeknownst to me – and to my lawyer as it turns out – Universal is a complicated web of parent and subsidiary companies, all with similar names but different locations and purposes, and my lawyer… sued the wrong one.  I’ve since learned this is a frustratingly common tactic...