When I'm creating a character, I don't see it so much as playing someone else as just playing a specific part of myself under certain circumstances.

I always like teaser trailers because they don't give too much away, you know? They give just a flavor of what the thing is.

Anybody who dedicates himself to exploring the human condition, there's always a detached eye that's watching. In any situation, a little part of me is observing it, to see if there are any raw materials to create something else later.

For me, with a character, you start with the shoes.

The iconoclastic mode, that specific mode of language, there is an element of it that it is punk - that is confrontational. That's just a part of the language of jazz - at a certain point.

Songwriting is such an intricate part of me as an artist and as a person; I couldn't just let someone else do it.