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Singing instrumental music is most important because, while you play an instrument, you are singing through the instrument... actually, you are singing inside.

If you play music for the right reasons, the rest of the things will come. The right reason to play music is that you love it. That's why I play music. I never imagined that I was going to be doing this, especially because I never thought of myself as an instrumentalist.

There's more to being a musician than just making music.

If you're a musician, there's no instrument that can be withheld from you. If you're drawn to it, develop the talent for it.

To be a good musician, you need to give people what they want, what they need.

I identify more as a musician than as a singer, because I play piano and percussion, and I engineer and produce everything that I do.

The role of the musician is to go from concept to full execution. Put another way, it's to go from understanding the content of something to really learning how to communicate it and make sure it's well-received and lives in somebody else.

As a musician, you just want to be able to do what you love.

I get to focus on being a musician sometimes, and I get to focus on being a vocalist sometimes.

When you can hear a violinist, that is better than you, then you learn from him, because if you play with somebody who is worse than you, then you go down.