“There was a band very early on in our class, and I played in that band and as a teenager, I continued.”

Flying can be such a claustrophobic experience, it’s nice to open that up a bit with music.

I really discovered the almost transcending power of music. And I think that is why I am so into it.

The orchestral or symphonic music never interested me.

Even though music is something I travel around doing, it is also a very private thing. A sort of escapism.

When I’m flying, I really like to listen to piano music. Something impressionistic, loud and beautiful.

This time, I wanted to know if I was able to create images with words, with the sound of words.

I don’t have the feeling of being motivated by anger, revenge or frustration.

I think that’s a good thing when the one who is listening, is feeling it in a different way that the one who creates.

The best thing about Berlin was that I got to be surrounded by people who pursue their ideas for themselves.

I learned that music should be fun and should be a way to express yourself, that there aren’t really any rules.

We are all listening with different perspectives. I don’t want to impose my subjectivity to the listener.

I love the conversation between film and music.

The piano and the singing are two equal things to me – maybe not inseparable but very connected. You can say they are like two equal voices.

On the last album, I didn’t want to disturb the melody with too many stories.

It was more from my own relationship with the instruments at this time, figuring out the instrument and then having to learn different pieces that I really got into music.

Sometimes I feel like a melody doesn’t have anything to do with me, but it’s just something that comes, is accumulated from me playing on the piano, and then this little creature just appears.

One of the things that I loved about listening to Miles Davis is that Miles always had an instinct for which musicians were great for what situations. He could always pick a band, and that was the thing that separated him from everybody else.

I like being out front, doing what I do, but then I also like playing in a band too. I’d like to do stuff like I did with Deee-lite. I went out and played with them and they were the stars, that was cool.

It comes down to building your own world out here on the road. It’s who you surround yourself with. My band and crew are really positive guys.

I played in the high school band. I was the one baritone saxophone out of 80 other people. No one could tell whether I was hittin the right notes or the wrong notes.

Woody Pines is the best band I ever heard in my life I swear. I’m their biggest fan now!

The band never actually split up – we just stopped speaking to each other and went our own separate ways.

Rock Band never got anybody a date. Never.

The fifth member of my band is my non-profit work.