I'm more of a songwriter. I love writing songs. I love writing my songs. It's always been writing for me, and it makes it different when you're writing for yourself.
Everyone has said I got my own sound.
I think it's the best thing I've ever done. I think it's realistic, and it's true to the me that has been developing over the years. I like first-person music.
I've always considered myself a filmmaker who writes stuff for himself to do.
I'm not necessarily a happy singer. That's not who I am as an artist.
Reading is an art form, and every man can be an artist.
I'm not really married to the craft of jazz - I'm married to me, and my style, and whatever I produce.
A musician should only sound like what they do, and no two musicians sound the same. It's an individual-feel thing, you know?
I write for myself; I release the albums to connect with everyone else.
I'm never scared what people are gonna think about music that I make.
My music has always been my solo project.
Very early on, I started improvising. I was more interested in the music that came out of me than any music I heard.
I kind of make a film for myself to sort of express myself.
I don't create the movies I'm in. When it comes to music, it's my clothes, it's my guitar, it's my voice, it's my song.
I made music just for myself.
I put out my first song with no intentions of being famous.
I don't think that I ever believed that poetry would be a career. I have always thought of poems as something more private than professional... I would never introduce myself as a poet. I will always have some other thing that I am.
When I can make music and don't have to think about anyone else's ideas or voice - when I'm making something that only I can make - it feels good. It's nice when you can find a sound that only you can make. No one else can make 'Cosmogramma.' No one else can make 'Until the Quiet Comes.'
I found my own voice slowly. I don't do big tricks like Mariah Carey, so I've found this weird way of singing that works for me.
I'm not here to change the music world, but I'm definitely here to show what I can do and express myself through my music.
I'm the type of artist who touches people, that's the type of artist that I am.
It's part of what I do at my piano - the hymns. And then I write.
I love the idea of stepping out of the band situation into a solo world with no boundaries, no expectations, where nothing is out of bounds.
I want to release music that is true to myself.
I like making movies for myself and my friends and people with my sensibility.
