Music is just kind of an expression of who I am. It's what I do.

My name is on the thing, but the reality of it is, when I get up there on stage, I'm part of a band. I'm part of a unit. It's like a basketball team.

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.

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

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 have pretty ecumenical tastes. I'm interested in a lot of different kinds of music, so I don't listen with a jaundiced ear to music because it's in a certain category, whether it's country or opera or hip-hop or bebop or whatever it is.

You never get it figured out. You just keep playing.