Quotes from Jacob Collier

Making music with other people feeds spontaneity, and lends ideas to your solo work.

Music is one whole force. And I think the Proms have always represented very clearly that music is a universal language, one that everyone can speak. I've just followed my goosebumps in every direction and have found a recipe for what my music feels and sounds like.

Even if nobody was listening to it, I'd still be making music.

The world of Stevie Wonder - in particular, the kind of overflowing joy that exists in every single thing I've ever heard him do, every note he sings - that is so deeply inspiring to me in every way.

Music is like cooking for me: you mix the ingredients together in one big pan and see how they end up. Through experimenting, you find what you really like and stick with it.

You can get people to follow very intricate pathways of musical information, but it feels like a nursery rhyme or a children's story.

I have lots of strange ideas in the back of my mind.

I'd say that I'm a really quite a joyful person in general, but I think the idea of joy can be extremely complex, and rich and varied.

I just became accustomed to being all the members of the band. That was something that was really exciting to me.

I jumped into a world of musical learning that was very much led by myself and then I drew from the music that was all around me.

A lot of the music that I really love, and a lot of my favourite music and a lot of my favourite things and a lot of my favourite people, these can be experienced on many levels.

It was a challenge with 'In My Room,' because I was the only person in that room making the record, to maintain perspective.