I don't know if it's possible to affect my ego any more. There's no room left. For me, I think I make music like the way I think it should be made, like what rock should sound like. It has nothing to do with the current marketplace. And so from that state of mind, it's gonna sound different from anything else out there. And when something sounds different, I think that can be inspiring to other musicians.

Everything I've done I've just fallen into.

I've been tired since I was 15.

As I recall, my life as a child was so all-consuming that I barely had time to consider the future.

The first Latin music that blew my mind was bumba, which was a Puerto Rican beat.

My father was a Norwegian tenor and my mother a New York Irish librarian.

The world today is the same as it always was but people know more about what's going on in the world than they used to.