Grammy Winner Jacob Collier Plays “All I Need”

AMANPOUR: Well, in a minute, I’m going to ask you to play us out live with “All I Need.” But can you first tell us about it? What is the song? It’s a love song. How did you come up with it? What was the influence. And then we’re going to ask you to play it. Jacob, can you hear me?

COLLIER: Hey. Oh, sorry. I think you cut off one second. Yes. “All I Need” is — it’s a love…

AMANPOUR: Yes. OK. Tell me about it, yes.

COLLIER: Yes. It’s quite sort of incandescence, a sort of wonder blast or something. It’s quite groovy. And I knew I wanted to collaborator for it that had this kind of levity, and for whom things weren’t so heavy and who wasn’t particularly pretentious, but who was just amazing. Mahalia was like the perfect fit. And so I wrote the song. Mahalia sings part of it, and Ty Dolla Sign sings part of it. And for me this song is — it’s almost like the sort of — the serendipitous sort of alchemy of joy and how you can transform every different kind of force inside your life, and it can become something ultra-joyful.

AMANPOUR: OK. Well, now I want you to start playing “All I Need.” And we’re going to say goodbye to our viewers. Thank you so much for watching. And you can find us on social media. But you’re going to listen and watch Jacob Collier play “All I Need.” And I think you have got a whole load of different camera angles as well. So, hit it Jacob.

COLLIER: Thank you so much.