Who am I?

 Herbert Hancock 

Maria Popova Blog 

We usually define ourselves by what we do;

I am a writer 

Or I am a doctor 

Or I am a dancer 

Or I do construction 

That's how we define ourselves 

There's a big trip with all of that

[....]

We are not this or that thing 

That We define ourselves as!

The core of which we are is a human being, 

It changes everything

So music now,  I look at it from the standpoint of human being

And use that as the foundation. 

And then I use what I do to translate what initiates from my humanity 

Into musical terms

That why I am able to make every record be different

From every other record!