When I'm in the studio, when I'm warm, when I'm what people call improvising, I feel a very special connection. I feel the most right. I don't want to become too mystic about this, but things feel as though they're in the best order at that particular moment.

We're a machine and we have to be worked in the same way we have to be fed.

By making the start of the sequence automatic, they replace doubt and fear with comfort and routine.

I think that probably the moments of discovery do come from a place that is not totally organized. Order is something that we already know about. Discoveries are in a place we don't already know about.

I had always seen myself as a star; I wanted to be a galaxy.

I always find that the best collaborations are when you work with people that know what they're doing, and you leave them alone to do it.

When you're in a groove, you're not spinning your wheels; you're moving forward in a straight and narrow path without pauses or hitches. You're unwavering, undeviating, and unparalleled in your purpose. A groove is the best place in the world. Because when you are in it, you have the freedom to explore, where everything you question leads you to new avenues and new routes.