Well, I like songs that have like a little bit of quirkiness to them.

If you want the film [La La Land ] to represent all things jazz, it does not. You'll be disappointed by that. But, if you just see it as one guy's point of view, one filmmaker's point of view, and one story among many stories that can be told about jazz, then it's not as much of an issue.

I'm trying to be me and embrace all the parts of me that have grown up, listened to more music and soaked up more influences.

I don't really marinate in anybody's album because I don't really want to sound like anybody else when I put my album out. So I'd rather not even be tempted to listen to a bunch of other stuff with any degree of emersion in it, cause I just don't want to sound like anything else, so I kinda focus on my own music.

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.

​W​e're so used to having everything we want at our fingertips so I think that when things get tough it's ​difficult ​for people to persist through that.

All men should be feminists. If men cared about women's rights, the world would be a better place