Hip-hop and R&B are especially fertile bases of collaboration. It always makes good records and good music.

You learn so much from taking chances, whether they work out or not. Either way, you can grow from the experience and become stronger and smarter.

My first big break came with Lauryn Hill on a track called Everything is Everything, I played piano on that track way back in 1998.

Happy that New York passed marriage equality tonight. A victory for human rights. Progress.

Experience is a great teacher.

My family is very musical, I was surrounded by it. And from four years old I was the one that asked my mother could I take piano lessons... It wasn't forced on me. It was something I wanted to do. And ever since, I've never stopped, I've never stopped playing music. I never went through a period where I didn't want to do it.

I hear melodies and hooks all day. I've always been that way, since I was a kid.