If I can bring joy into the world, then I'll be successful.

In every life we have some trouble, but when you worry you make it double. Don't worry. Be happy.

My biggest musical influences are probably my parents.

Inviting audiences to open up and hear things differently is an important part of what I do. But I still love to sing songs with words, too.

Sometimes mistakes are the best thing that can happen, because they might lift you...out of your complacency, and open your mind up to a whole other area that you wouldn't have gone to intentionally.

When we listen to improvisational jazz, or solo classical violinists, the way they phrase and inflect melodies feels vocal, like they’re talking to us. When I was figuring out how to perform solo, I wanted to move back and forth between bass riffs, melody, and harmony, so I often used sounds instead of — or alongside — the words of a song. I found that if I sang a line using the consonants, vowels, shadings, and inflection we recognize as human language sounds, people responded as if I were talking to them.

To be a musician, you have to be honest... to be honest... to be honest.