“I'm always looking to create new avenues or new visions of music.” — Herbie Hancock Quote

I'm always looking to create new avenues or new visions of music.

When I was in my early teens, I remember coming to the conclusion that your life never ends.

When I was six, my best friend's parents bought him a piano. My mother noticed that every time I would go to his house, the first thing I would say to him was 'Levester' - His name was Levester - I said, 'Levester, can I go play your piano?' So, on my 7th birthday, my parents bought me a piano.

But, the truth is that everyone is somebody already.

I hope that I can make good music out of whatever genre I go into. Just to prove to myself that I can.

I've never been much of a craftsman, in an educated way. But I think just the experience of writing makes the avenues I follow a little more efficient in some ways. At the same time, when you're young, you're a little more fearless, and there's less of an internal critic.

When you create a character, you create it for yourself - you do whatever you want. It's your job to explore it in as many different avenues as you can in order to make it a fully wounded character.

The great thing about pastry is there are so many avenues - it's very hard to get bored doing this.

Instead, I think over the years we have cut the strength of marriage and relationships by the law and weakened the institution. We have tried to deal with relationships with no-fault divorce, with child custody, with so many other avenues; and it has not helped.