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

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.

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.

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

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 reasons why my album is called ‘Forget the World’ is because when you listen to the world, you make stupid mistakes.

I’m always going forward toward something, and that something is usually an album, because I like to record. I probably like to record more than I like to write.

You should check out William Shatner’s album The Transformed Man.

I had no idea what it would be like to do an album and that process was grueling and tedious but it was very rewarding.

My first album was completed in three months.

I always loved Alan Menken songs and wanted my first album to be a tribute to him and his work. I always loved his music.

I did an album and they allowed me to sell it at the show. I also did a Disney cruise line gig.

If My New Album Isn’t Out in 2014, Something is Seriously Wrong!