Working with people, the musical part is one thing but the personal part is totally different and just as critical. If the friendship is there and it's a lasting friendship, then it will take care of itself.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I try not to become friends with musicians, but life happens and dinner happens and going out happens - it becomes interwoven in L.A.
When you're doing collaborative music, the relationship that forms is a very bonding kind of experience.
If it wasn't for music, I doubt whether we'd be friends.
As always in a musical collaboration: One has to like each other. As simple as that.
It's nice being friends over a period of time with people whose music you like so much, or other filmmakers, seeing people change, go through trials.
You can have all sorts of relationships, but there's something with musicians working together where you can have relationship that can just continue to grow in a beautiful way.
The beginning of a friendship, the fact that two people out of the thousands around them can meet and connect and become friends, seems like a kind of magic to me. But maintaining a friendship requires work. I don't mean that as a bad thing. Good art requires work as well.
There are a lot of musicians I've met on Twitter where it was like, 'Hey, I like your music' - and then I ended up meeting them and it turned into a friendship.
Over the years, I've collected a lot of musical friends.
I think there's a natural chemistry between us as friends; and there's really no separation between the rapport that we feel when we're in conversation and when we're playing music, it's one in the same.