I like the idea of playing in unison with yourself.
I've been lucky enough to sort of go over different mediums, different vibes and genres.
I enjoy playing the band as the band. I 'be' the whole band and I'm playing the drums, I'm playing the guitar, I'm playing the saxophone. To me, the most wonderful thing about playing music is that.
I found a way to connect with lots of instruments rather than just fixating on one of them. I just loved making noise on anything.
Since my father is a musician as well, he taught me growing up that if you can play jazz, you can learn all instruments and write on them. He wanted me to be a songwriter that can do anything in any genre. I'm all about doing every genre.
Every performer should learn a little bit of everything. Most performers today only play the guitar.
A lot of people I make music with are really talented and it doesn't stop at one instrument.
Just the actual physical ability to hold four instruments simultaneously and do some of the things that Vivien was able to do is mind blowing to any surgeon. He never went to medical school and he became one of the great teachers of medicine himself, people are just amazed.
My goal is to just be able to play as many instruments as I possibly can.
Being a drummer definitely influences how I play guitar. And then piano influences drumming and vice versa.
Radiohead and Our Lady Peace are doing the seven layers of guitar, and I kind of jumped on that before anyone else did.
I wanted something that had the feel of a complete band and a variety of instrument. Apart from doing the album for musical satisfaction, I felt it was an important statement for other women - showing you don't have to rely on other people to do things for you.
