A lot of musicians have a tough time hearing what we're doing in a trio format.

You know, being America, being the land of "number ones", everyone wants to be a leader before they follow.

I like to make records sound good. I'm more like a reducer than a producer. If an artist cannot produce themselves, what's the point?

I'm not going to play funk licks on a jazz album. That makes no sense.

My job is to write songs that have emotional meaning to me.

There's not one Tin Pan Alley song on my record.

Pop doesn't really look back. It can't. What makes pop work is simplicity.