My music is very emotional. The reason why I want to play music is very emotional. I want to call out my emotions and package them into music.
Nobody wants to experience sad events but people like to listen to sad songs. That’s the beauty of music.
Everything is inspiring! It could be fine art or a conversation I have with somebody!
I have to be very original and have a strong musical voice. I don’t want to be a copycat of anybody.
The beautiful thing about music is that even so-called negative emotions like anger, sadness, frustration, when they come through the filter of music, they all become beautiful.
I love performing so much! The joy is to have the opportunity to be able to perform all around the world.
Whenever I do a performance I always hope it is the best day of my life. Sometimes it happens and sometimes it doesn’t.
Everybody improvises without noticing it. Life is about improvising. You can’t control what happens in your life, I mean, you don’t know what can happen in your life today. So you somehow improvise.
I really think that martial arts and music are very close to each other and both require a lot of focus and improvisation because you don’t know where or when you’re going to get kicked!
Travelling is very difficult, you have to go to places with different climates and time zones. Travelling like that every single day through the year is definitely not healthy, but that’s something I have to sacrifice if I want to play music.
I have always liked black and white! It is simple and the colour of the piano.
Music taught me how to always be patient and focused, and to train the little concentration in myself.
Some artists just go and play, and I have no objections to that – but I don’t like to do that. People take their very precious time to come to my concert, and they give me the opportunity to share two hours of their lives. I want to do the best I can, for visuals, sound and everything!
To be nice to people and make them happy – that’s my philosophy in life.
Art is not that much needed in life, we only need sleep and food. But why do people want art? Because they want to feel emotion! So emotionally moving things is great art to me!
Individuality and originality is was separates good and great artists! How much they can move people with what they do! If they can shake the heart with what they do, is the key!
Work hard! Just keep working hard until you can do something you want to do! We all progress at different speeds and in different ways, so be patient and keep working hard!
Satisfying yourself requires challenges because when you come to a certain point, you’re not happy anymore. You don’t feel happy with the way you played one year ago, you have to always make progress. So that’s a challenge.
For me I always need to have two sides to me when I play! I need to be a performer and at the same time the producer. So I need to be somewhere up in the air and producing my music. I can’t just be the performer; otherwise I can’t see the whole view. I need the big view!
Challenges are the key in life. You always have to challenge yourself and try to get to different states.