By 17, I Had A Whole Band

I'm Constantly Being Courted By Labels And Their Backing. Obviously The Market Is There When You Talk About The Economics And The Numbers, But It's Hard To Give Up The Freedom Of Being Able To Do Whatever You Want.

Most Of The Stuff I Learned To Play, I Learned In High School. I Had A Band In High School, A Jazz-fusion Thing, And I Was The Keyboard Player. I Was Interested In How The Instruments Worked And The Theory Behind Playing With Them.

It Doesn't Matter The Genre Or Type Of Art, If It's Authentic There's An Apparent Beauty To It And As An Artist, That's Very Inspiring.

You'd Hear Willie Nelson, Then Earth, Wind & Fire, Then Chicago, Then Billy Joel On The Same Radio Station. Nowadays, Everything Is Compartmentalized.

I'm Not Thinking About What Needs To Be On The Radio. I'm Not Thinking About Anything Other Than - I'm Just Going To Let This Music Come Out Of Me And Not Have Any Sort Of Preconceived Notion Of What I Should Do. I'm Just Going To Do It.