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Last year, I finally got my own grand piano, and that was a big thing for me because it's always been and always will be a very important part of my life.

Sometimes I can sit at my computer and find a cool sound, or a new synth patch, and get super-inspired by that and make a track based on that sound. But the piano is where I find the inspiration and come up with the melody.

There's always been a piano around the house, and I've grown up around it. It's a massive part of my life and always has been.

Music will always be there. I own a piano. I have it in my apartment. I play it every day, and I have a lot of musician friends who I play with.

The piano is kind of my second instrument.

I bought a piano once because I had the dream of playing As Time Goes By as some girl's leaning on it drinking a martini. Great image. But none of it worked out. I can't even play Chopsticks. But I've got a nice piano at my house!

My mother bought a piano, put it in the front room, and I just started writing my songs.

I'm not somebody who carries around a notepad and writes songs all day long. I don't imagine everything I think of is worth being in a song. So I tend to collect notes, and I set time aside to go to work and write songs.

Sometimes I'll write without the guitar or the piano, but most of the time I'll be playing and just improvising some words. And when I get something that sounds good, a line with a story in it, I'll try and tease it out and figure out where the story is going.

If I get an idea for a song, I have a melody for it. I'm a musician first. I'm not limited by the fretboard.