I think there's so much negative influence on children in school settings. It becomes learning by rote to pass a test. It's not contextualized.

For what I can imagine and feel and think and hear, I can hardly do anything on the acoustic bass. It used to be just pure frustration of imagining so much more and being able to get to a certain level of execution.

There's nothing wrong with struggle. Anytime I look back at a difficult phase of my life and see what grew out of it - the creative survival tactics - I think that the good is way better than the bad.

I just think music is so intrinsically linked with images in the culture that we live in that you'll be hard-pressed to have an experience with the music without a preconceived notion.

I am insubordinate by nature. I can't help it.

I love Aretha Franklin, Edith Piaf, Blondie.