It's a pity if someone who has a really profoundly potent art to share chooses not to or doesn't fit into this very thin slice of what's desirable and marketable, chances are the public will never get a chance to hear what they're doing.

When I read, you know, a rough neighborhood of Portland, I'm like - what? - they didn't have kombucha bars there?

My name means 'hope' in Spanish and it's a name I want to live up to.

I just think music is so intrinsically linked with images in the culture that we live in that youll be hard-pressed to have an experience with the music without a preconceived notion.

Jazz has always been a melting pot of influences and I plan to incorporate them all.

There's the juiciest music that makes me so happy, music that I need on that deserted island when I'm stranded for the rest of my life, and nobody cares that it's there.

You don't have to be fearless to do anything, you can be scared out of your mind.