I can't imagine anything more worthwhile than doing what I most love. And they pay me for it.

I love music more just in and of itself. I love harmony and rhythm.

I liked the more sophisticated urban style of blues like Ray Charles and B. B. King, Bobby Blue Bland, Lou Rawls; people like that with more of a tendency toward jazz.

The most profound, tangible influence in my life has been my wife, Monique. I don't know that I would even be alive were it not for her, and I certainly would not be the person that I am today.

I started out playing ukulele when I was 5 or 6 years old.

There's a bootleg album that was recorded when I was 14 or 15, a compilation of things live at different clubs. Songs like Girl from Ipanema and Cry Me A River. I don't know what the title of it is.

I can't imagine anything more worthwhile than doing what I most love. And they pay me for it.