"I grew up in this room filled with musical instruments, but most importantly, I had a family who enc..." — Jacob Collier

Music is just another language, but it's very special because it crosses everyone's borders.

AI as a tool in music-making is fine, but it's always going to be the humanity in music that makes people want to listen to it.

Djesse,' essentially, is this spirit. It's this sort of character, very much with some childlike energy, which permeates all of this music... The first album represents kind of pre-dawn, to that moment at the end of the morning when everything's very much alive.

It's funny, I guess when I was growing up, I didn't really think about being an instrumentalist, per se. I didn't think, well, I want to be a piano player, or, I want to be a guitar player, or even, I want to be a singer. I just wanted to be a musician.