Frank Lloyd Wright... his things were beautiful but not very functional.

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.

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.

All you needed was a couple of instruments and a few chords and you could be on an indie label.

I like to combine the dramatic emotional warmth of strings with the grooves and body business of drums and bass.

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

It didn't even occur to me that I'm the last person in the world who should play salsa or Brazilian music.