It Is A Privilege And

So Much Of What We Do As Artists Is A Combination Of Personal Experience And Imagination, And How That All Creeps Into Your Work Is Not So Linear.

But The Greatest Thing About Music Is Putting It Out There For People To Figure Out. You Want The Listener To Find The Song On Their Own. If You Give Too Much Away, It Takes Away From The Imagination.

My Dream As A Child Was To Play With A Bass Player Like Ray Brown, Who Played With The Oscar Peterson Trio. The Feeling I Had Listening To His Work Was Almost Carnal, So To Actually Play For Him Was Earth-shattering For Me.

When You Drive By Radio City And You See Your Name Up There And It's Only 'your' Name. I Just Went 'ooh'. I Thought This Is Really Like Looking At Another Person.

I Spent A Lot Of Time Playing In Miserable Places That Were Not A Lot Of Fun. Somebody Once Said It Is Character Building And I Was Like: My Character Is Just Fine.