Something about music urges us to engage with its larger context, beyond the piece of plastic it came on-it seems to be part of our genetic makeup that we can be so deeply moved by this art form. Music resonates in so many parts of the brain that we can't conceive of it being an isolated thing.

I’m not all about money, but, like most musicians, I am about survival.

It's more about the stuff you think about when you're getting from place to place on a bicycle than it is about actually riding the bicycle.

I am an immigrant with a Green Card and, therefore, I am not eligible to vote in a federal election.

The world isn't logical, it's a song.

I couldn't take pictures of green rolling hills.

There's an old joke that you know you're in heaven if the cooks are Italian and the engineering is German. If it's the other way around you're in hell.