The audience is like my instrument. It's not just me up there, it's collaborative.

The audience is like my instrument. It's not just me up there, it's collaborative.

If I can bring joy into the world, then I'll be successful.

If I stand there, appreciating the world around me as full of amazing sounds and the possibility of new ones, I think that invites other people to see the world that way, too. I love sharing the experience of singing with people, and I love sharing my stories. But when it comes to teaching, I have a lot of help.

I'd actually been making my living as an organist with bands since I was probably 15 or 16 years old, and then as a senior in high school I put together a jazz quintet called The Bobby Mack Jazz Quintet.

Inviting audiences to open up and hear things differently is an important part of what I do. But I still love to sing songs with words, too.

Sometimes mistakes are the best thing that can happen, because they might lift you...out of your complacency, and open your mind up to a whole other area that you wouldn't have gone to intentionally.