The music that I make is pretty sincere; it's from my heart and I love it, and what just happened is more people have started to connect with my heart, and I haven't followed some kind of marketing scheme.

People are more used to seeing men who are masters at an instrument than women.

I love people, and I love to be with people and to make music with people, but my natural state is to revert back to being by myself in my house, which is cool because thats where I practice and write and listen and study.

You can grow up with literally nothing and you don’t suffer if you know you’re loved and valued.

For what I can imagine and feel and think and hear, I can hardly do anything on the acoustic bass. It used to be just pure frustration of imagining so much more and being able to get to a certain level of execution.

Up-and-coming musicians can easily reach out and find a loving teacher, and that's definitely what happened to me.

Jazz music just resonates with the frequency of me.