I wanted to put jazz on the record, all the loves of music that I had on the record, so I could show people I was ahead of my 19 years. It may have been over the heads of some people.

My fans are the best in the world! They've grown up with me and stayed with me through this entire journey.

I just want people to take a step back, take a deep breath and actually look at something with a different perspective. But most people will never do that.

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

Music used to be essential and meaningful, but now it's disposable.

Everything I have now is so real, so vivid.

I watch my contemporaries, and they love to live in the studio and I don't. I have a life. I treat it as a 9-to-5. I try to create something new every day, and then I get on with my life.