It's always difficult to know if a song needs more than piano, and I worry about my tendency to go in a sparse direction.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I'm able to sometimes express things even more articulately on the piano than I am with singing.
And I definitely have an affinity with the piano.
Piano should be the one. Yeah, because that's your basis. Everything is right there in front of you.
When I am back home, I have an upright piano and I play constantly.
Every time I see a piano, I have this urge to play it.
With the piano I'm completely in control of the gestural situation-not that I'm going to play the piece myself, but I know what's difficult, what's impossible.
You feel the music needs something but you don't know what. So you start searching, fitting, measuring, trying. Every time you try another angle. And sometimes that's frustrating, especially if you don't come up with something for three days.
When I hear the piano played in a compositional way, like in a songwriter's way in a compositional way, there's a certain arc to that that I love.
Guitar is great for a certain thing, but a piano is so much more expansive.
I don't put boundaries on myself when I sit at the piano.