To me, the band is like one of my homes, in fact. It's not like, 'I've got to get out of this band. I've got to go home.' This band is home in a lot of ways. It's my closest friends; it's a place where I really feel comfortable and happy.
There are things that I refuse to deal with except through my music... because I don't trust humanity that much, and I don't know if I trust me that much. But I trust the songs.
Through music I either tame my demons or unleash them and allow them to be what they are. I don't want the music to be about provocation, I want the music to bring you to a place where you feel at home.
I couldn't help but feel very different from everybody, so I think that's why I found such a big world in music, and that's why I kind of - I was an introvert as a kid, but I loved the piano, and that's where I felt at home.
I could wrap myself in the warm cocoon of a song and go anywhere.
Music was my joy, my home, the one place I felt happy and secure.
I like to say, jazz music is kind of like my musical equivalent of comfort food. You know, it's always where I go back to when I just want to feel sort of grounded.
Rap music was a savior to me.
I could live inside a G major chord, with Grace, if she was willing.
Jazz is my comfort music, like comfort food.
I think first thing and the most important thing, for me, is that Boston becomes my musical home, my musical family.
Music has always been a big part of my life. It's kind of like a refuge for me. I just use it to get away.
I realized the only time I felt complete and peaceful was while I was playing or shortly afterwards, even though it was in front of thousands of other people, which most people wouldn't consider to be a safe place.
I started imagining this whole different world. It was a society of musicians, a family I hoped I could belong to one day.
With my singing I can make, a refuge for my spirit's sake; a house of shining words, to be my fragile immortality.
The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world; it will accept those whom breeding and intellect and culture have alike rejected.
