I'm a terrible Scrabble player.

I think I'm still a little too intense for my own good sometimes.

Playing the violin and singing and whistling are just three different ways of making sound. It's not trying to replace a band, per se. It's become a completely different thing. And it's not just simply an effect. It's just a very surprisingly intuitive thing.

The idea of writing songs because you're depressed and you need to communicate it somehow, that isn't really true for me.

Just don't let the human factor fail to be a factor at all

I think when I was pretty young I got really into the tone of my instrument and I remember just playing one note for an hour to just kind of feel the resonance of the violin.

All the folks I play with come from jazz backgrounds or at least appreciate spontaneity within the parameters of a pop song.