"I want to try to find the spirituality behind Coltrane's playing. I want to copy the feeling that he had back at this time because that's what's truly sticks out."
"I am really interested in living in a way that helps other people be better. But I have to help myself be better. Composing is just the whole apparatus for that."
"I've experienced love. I've experienced loss. And I do have a subtext for every piece. But I always ask myself who is J'Nai in this?"
"I feel like my place in a business like this is to show you that what you look like as a person will never matter more than what it is you can create as an artist."
"I can't say that I'm an activist in any way. I'm hoping that through the work of being a musician there's something positive that I can bring to the conversation or people's experience."
"If this helps to open your eyes to what is more just, what is more equal, then that is one of the things to take away from this experience today."
"Sitting with the unknown brought up some new things I'm interested in and things that I'm not interested anymore in in a very clear way that it might have just taken a lot more time to find had we not had that experience."
"There's a lot of magic in music that I am not in control of, but that I love being a part of. Maybe just triggering it and then sitting back and watching and listening."
"The most enjoyable thing about what we do is we get to spend time investigating music often that has so many layers and so much to investigate."
"Musically, it's always in a way, like a second thought to me. It's funny, right? I'm always interested in human nature and and humanities and the complexity of the humans in question."