There's only one thing that everyone in this world has in common: whether you want to love somebody and you want to be loved in return.

I've worked with jazz artists, country artists, classical artists, pop artists. I never wanted there to be categories, because when I was a kid there weren't.

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.

Most of the stuff I learned to play, I learned in high school. I had a band in high school, a jazz-fusion thing, and I was the keyboard player. I was interested in how the instruments worked and the theory behind playing with them.

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

I just want to be as creative as I possibly can.

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.