I just think music is so intrinsically linked with images in the culture that we live in that youll be hard-pressed to have an experience with the music without a preconceived notion.

It's weird sometimes to have people not see me or see what I do.

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.

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.

You don't have to be fearless to do anything, you can be scared out of your mind.

Whoever you are, if you know what you're doing, you don't want other people to overtake the merit of your art.

When I read, you know, a rough neighborhood of Portland, I'm like - what? - they didn't have kombucha bars there?