We never thought that we would be more than an opening act.

Oh, he's magic. Faulkner has opened passages in my brain. You do things you'd never expect.

I look at making a record and being in a recording studio as more of a craft; You have to be so much more careful and play simpler.

Ginger Baker was never my favorite, but he was part of the group Cream that opened the door to what we did. They were the first band to really get into improvisation. They were an absolute necessity to what came later.

Playing live is really the art form. You're a lot freer, a lot looser. You've got people there that can give you feedback, and then you can play off of that. There's so much more energy.

Sometimes you're gonna jump off a cliff and land flat on your face. Then you just get up and go again. But sometimes you dive off the cliff and start soaring with the eagles, and that's when you find new music, places that you've never been before.