I always try to leave the expectations at the door and go for the immediate experience together and be open to see what happens. The only expectation I would have, or try to have, is that I donât know whatâs going to happen.
With collaborators sometimes you continue to work together, and itâs in parallel. Then, thereâs always a point of differentiation where you come apart and you stop working together. Sometimes that happens quickly. Sometimes the collaboration lasts a long time, which is a real gift. Like any relationship, you develop over time and form nuance and complexity and history together with those ideas⌠and on the personal side, too.
But I donât go out of my way to try and keep things going with people. If itâs naturally working and all of the mundane stuff around it is agreeable, then just follow that flow. There are plenty of collaborations that I thought would be great, but were boring or didnât work, or we might have a great connection, conversation, and then when we play music together we just canât synchronize.
