We're Just Ordinary People. We Don't Know

You Can Always Find A Stray Negative Comment On The Internet. It's Like Everybody Loves To Put Negative Comments On The Internet Under The Cloak Of Anonymity.

Black People Invented Jazz. But This Story [in La La Land] Wasn't Ever Claiming To Be That. It's Just A Story About Two People From One Writer's Point Of View.

I Gravitate Toward People That Are A Little More Outrageous Than I Am. And We Complement Each Other Well.

My First Big Break Came With Lauryn Hill On A Track Called Everything Is Everything, I Played Piano On That Track Way Back In 1998.

I Have A Structured Songwriting Process. I Start With The Music And Try To Come Up With Musical Ideas, Then The Melody, Then The Hook, And The Lyrics Come Last. Some People Start With The Lyrics First Because They Know What They Want To Talk About And They Just Write A Whole Bunch Of Lyrical Ideas, But For Me The Music Tells Me What To Talk About.