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.

I don't really like to sit around the house listening to my own records. They're not that good.

Sometimes when I hear my voice on tape, I'm like, 'Who is that horrible man?

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

I've been tired since I was 15.

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

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