I think musicians are always very generous in promoting anything good they hear. It's just kind of in our nature.

I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks.

I think I can be pretty focused, but as I say, it was more wanting to be the good student, seeing myself as a good student, and also, my parents had expectations. They wouldn't have cared if I got a B or a C or even a D.

The kind of music or the kind of arrangements that I do, the kind of musicians I choose, is just what I like to hear.

As citizens we have to be more thoughtful and more educated and more informed. I turn on the TV and I see these grown people screaming at each other, and I think, well, if we don't get our civility back, we're in trouble.

I'm the guy, I'm kind of like the, uh, Everyman, so I think people just relate to that.