I think I've tried to stay true to my music since the beginning. It's kind of hard because of the access and technology but I just do what I do.

For me able to do the records I want to do and not have to worry about this producer or that producer or that trend, I'm not really interested in that.

I used to play pianos in bars. You know in hotels, you'd see guys playing piano with a snifter? That was me, with a painted-on mustache. I was about 15.

I hate the pigeonholing that's happened in the music business in the last 30 years.

By 17, I had a whole band that would go in and play. It was called Spontaneous Inventions, after a Bobby McFerrin album.

It is great to have your own label; you can cultivate your own artists I've worked with pretty much everyone I wanted to.

I was a nerd academically. But I was also an athlete and a musician. I never wanted to be shut out of any situation. I think it was that more than anything.