I've been lucky with the circle of people I'm playing with. We've played enough that there's a language we talk with each other when we play.

I feel so lucky that my high school was right in the middle of Denver, which is one of those sort of segregated towns, with black and white and Hispanic neighborhoods. But the school I went to was right in the middle of the whole thing.

I can write the stuff and play it myself and have something in my head, but the best feeling is when somebody else plays it and they're hearing something other than what I'm hearing.

First I was a European-style player, then I was a downtown 'noise guy,' and now some people call me an Americana guy.

I've been lucky with the circle of people I'm playing with. We've played enough that there's a language we talk with each other when we play.

I'm basically a pretty shy person and I don't dance or get into fights. But there are all these things inside me that get out when I perform. It's like a real world when I play, here I can do all the things that I can't do in real life.

It's incredible how one song or even one little phrase or just a few notes, if you really concentrate on it, can be a kaleidoscope of possibility.