Passion is one great force that unleashes creativity, because if you're passionate about something, then you're more willing to take risks.

One of the things I love about music is live performance.

Practicing is not only playing your instrument, either by yourself or rehearsing with others - it also includes imagining yourself practicing. Your brain forms the same neural connections and muscle memory whether you are imagining the task or actually doing it.

In performance, we have a greater purpose. The greater purpose is that we're communing together, and we want this moment to be really special for all of us. Because otherwise, why bother to have come at all? It's not about proving anything. It's about sharing something.

I learn something not because I have to, but because I really want to. That's the same view I have for performing. I'm performing because I really want to, not because I have to bring bread back home.

I think one of the great things about being a musician is that you never stop learning.

You go through phases. You have to reinvent reasons for playing, and one year's answer might not do for another.