The most important thing is just like creativity and music. It's the one thing that you never lose if you just stay loyal to that.

Lyrically, I could be so much sharper. Melodically, I could be so much stickier. Musically, I could have so much more texture. So I'm constantly doing that, trying to find new ways to mix things up.

When you're playing, you're playing something for the world to hear.

I love playing. The keyboard is my journal.

Tokyo is like the New York of Asia. Although the people there are all basically from Japan, they celebrate what they like about various cultures.

I try not to cry, in general. The experience of crying is so emotional and uncomfortable for me that I don't like to go there.

If you are not curious, that's when your brain is starting to die. And discovering, I think, that's what separates us from the rest of the other species. It's that we discover and pioneer.