♪ Your mother’s buried under life’s debris ♪♪ Damn son, tell me what you wanna do ♪It’s amazing being at Abbey Road.I feel like I came to the Beatles much later in life.And I recorded some of my last record at Sunset Soundand was thinking a lot about the Beach Boysand all these classic studios.And so it really is very special and really bleedsinto the recording processwhen you know all of the history of the placethat you’re recording in. It’s incredible to be here.I can’t believe I’m here.[laughs]It’s pretty surreal.[jazz music]My band is here because we’re on tour.So I usually record everything kind of by myself.My collaborator, Ben Chapoteau-Katz is thereand Andrew Lapin, our usual, you know, producerand engineer. But really I’m kind of bouncing aroundbetween the instruments. But for the first timeI’m kind of letting the band into a recording processwhich is a really special new moment for me.[jazz music]It’s easy to write things, but they’re not all good.[laughs]So I try not to judge anything and to just havethings happen when they happen. Which is why I usuallylike to start the writing process by myself.Because it’s easier to make things that I think are sillyand stupid and just kind of keep them and just see howI feel about them a week later or a month lateror even a day later.But if other people around that,then sometimes I get a little self-conscious[jazz music]Oh man, it’s really hard to know when anything is done.[laughs]I can tweak forever.Usually I have to get cut offand someone tells me that it’s over and I have to stop.But also there’s just a kind of feelingof exhaustion that happens sometimes where you’re likeI actually don’t even know what else I would do.And usually when I reach that pointI know it’s actually over.And then I give it a few daysand then I’m really proud of what I made.I found that a lot of recording is a reallypsychological process and finding ways to kindof just reorient the way that you’re thinkingabout the way that you’re playingand performing can actually yield really amazing results.[jazz music]I wish someone had told me when I was youngerthat it’s okay to take a bit longer to find my communityand to really embrace my artistic voice. BecauseI think the industry can sometimes make young people thinkthat they have to fit in, in a very specific kind of way.One thing that I’ve really learned is that I should leaninto the things that make me, me that really make me standout and give me my voice as an artist.[jazz music]
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