When you have humor, you have a base for collaboration. It is very important.

You never know what you're going to share. I can play, I know what is written - the marks, the things the composer tells me to do - and I do it, but it will still sound different each day.

I'm much better at saying something on the answering machine than texting.

I always talk about the hierarchy of art, and I always put music on the top of everything, because it's so immaterial.

I think after music is performance because it is also an immaterial form of art, and then there's everything else.

I have one guy that I really have to talk to once a day, and if I don't talk to him once a day, I really feel like something is not completed. This is, like, an attraction story.

When I play, what I see are people who mean something to me, both positively and negatively. It's my private life, in a way, what I see, and this is what I share.