I look at the artistic process as like experiencing the world, channeling it through your personality and sending it back out there. That's the process.

In regard to music, I just think that it's always best to have an attitude of being a perpetual student and always look to learn something new about music, because there's always something new to learn.

I tend to play in a way that feels natural to me. To me that's authentic for myself. I play by where I'm led by some sense of where I feel I'm supposed to be.

Instrumental music is increasingly marginalized and there's just no outlet, there's no venue for it, in terms of media.

Jazz music by its very nature is just a conglomerate of a lot of different kinds of music.

I'll just sit at the piano a lot an play like through different chord exercises and kind of just throwing my hands down on the piano from one chord to the next to see what happens.

I look at the artistic process as like experiencing the world, channeling it through your personality and sending it back out there. That's the process.