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I realized by using the high notes of the chords as a melodic line, and by the right harmonic progression, I could play what I heard inside me. That's when I was born.

I guess as a kid, I was always creative, and I was involved in music, like piano and violin and choir, so I always knew - I always knew that I wanted to do something that would allow me to be who I am. Generally, that was creatively, imaginatively.

I knew the exuberance of playing before an admiring audience and hearing my secret voice.

I thought I knew a lot about music. Then you start digging and the deeper you go, the more there is.

Your mind knows only some things. Your inner voice, your instinct, knows everything. If you listen to what you know instinctively, it will always lead you down the right path.

It's always been a gift with me, hearing music the way I do. I don't know where it comes from, it's just there and I don't question it.

Confidence is the key. When you're playing something new, find the part you know very well and play it really strong. That'll make you believe that you really do know it.

When I first started making music, I didn't really know what I was doing. I just wanted to write songs. I didn't have a concept. I didn't think it through. I was just flailing around doing what comes naturally. It took me a really long time to step back and deal with what I was doing with any kind of perspective or self-awareness.

I never felt I knew it all. I always felt there's something new to learn, something new to do.

I believe I inherited my sense of music from my father. My father was an ear piano player; he could just hear something and play it.