I always wanted to make a pop record. I'm a dancer myself, so I want to make something that people listen to and just want to dance to.

When I record something, I'll take a drive and just listen.

I wanted to make a jazz record. I didn't want it to be a standards record.

I just wanted to go out and make a record that I've always wanted to make since I was a kid.

I always loved Belle from 'Beauty and the Beast'. I always thought I looked like her, so I dressed like her for every Halloween.

He's at ease, his body sculpted to the music, his shoulder searching the other shoulder, his right toe knowing the left knee, the height, the depth, the form, the control, the twist of his wrist, the bend of his elbow, the tilt of his neck, notes digging into arteries, and he is in the air now, forcing the legs up beyond muscular memory, one last press of the thighs, an elongation of form, a loosening of human contour, he goes higher and is skyheld.