Jacob Collier explains his process of creating music in the studio, comparing it to live performances and emphasizing the improvisational aspect of both.
JACOB COLLIER:  I would say it definitely is the same thing. It’s a similar expression on a different scale of time, I guess, you know. You could say one is real time and one is stop time, but they’re both kind of improvisations. And in some ways, we’re doing the same thing right now just as we’re having a conversation. It’s like we, I’ve internalized enough of a vocabulary to kind of explain a bit about what I’ve done, or what I’m thinking or what I like, or whatever, and that happens kind of in a way that’s new every time. There’s a scenario in which it’s reasonable for me to do that. But I think for me I used to think they were very different. I used to think, “Well, oh I’ll be recording in my room, and then I’ll go and talk as – you know, touring, that’s fine, and then I’ll come back home and really continue doing what I love to do.” And then you realize it’s the same, it’s the same thing. It’s like a different limb of the same beast, you know, where you’re making an idea happen at a speed – at the speed at which you’re having it, you know. And when you’re in a studio that speed is in some ways slower than when you’re on the stage, and if I’m on the stage at the piano, then I’m playing as I’m thinking, and I’m jumping through hoops as I find the hoops, you know?