"Djesse,' essentially, is this spirit. It's this sort of character, very much with some childlike ene..." — 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.

I grew up in this room filled with musical instruments, but most importantly, I had a family who encouraged me to invest in my own imagination, and so things I created, things I built were good things to be building just because I was making them, and I think that's such an important idea.

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.