When I'm sleeping I do a lot of living.
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.
When you're a kid, you have this feeling like you're indestructible. Your mortality doesn't even occur to you. But as time goes by, you realize, "I better cut this out or that out if I want to continue to exist."
I still do a lot of shows with Brian Koonin, but we haven't had a full band lately.
As I recall, my life as a child was so all-consuming that I barely had time to consider the future.