When I'm flying, I really like to listen to piano music. Something impressionistic, loud and beautiful. Flying can be such a claustrophobic experience, it's nice to open that up a bit with music.

There was a band very early on in our class, and I played in that band and as a teenager, I continued. It was more from my own relationship with the instruments at this time, figuring out the instrument and then having to learn different pieces that I really got into music. I really discovered the almost transcending power of music. And I think that is why I am so into it.

I learned that music should be fun and should be a way to express yourself, that there aren't really any rules.

The piano and the singing are two equal things to me - maybe not inseparable but very connected. You can say they are like two equal voices.

Even though music is something I travel around doing, it is also a very private thing. A sort of escapism.

Sometimes I feel like a melody doesn't have anything to do with me, but it's just something that comes, is accumulated from me playing on the piano, and then this little creature just appears.

I don't have the feeling of being motivated by anger, revenge or frustration.