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.

A lot of stuff I do, 10 years later it becomes popular.

When I was a kid, I had some Charles Lloyd records.

It's really a drag to do the same project over and over again.

I still do a lot of shows with Brian Koonin, but we haven't had a full band lately.

I've been around the block a couple of times, and the guy I am now is the guy I like to be.

Until I was six years old we lived in the projects, then my two brothers and three sisters and I moved to a three-bed that my mother's father built.