I love to write. It's my first love.

I have a lot of hobbies and I can be very remiss in reminding myself to go down to the basement to work.

I'm always scouring the universe for great old instruments from the '50s and early '60s. That's really, for me, the golden age of basses, when they had just been invented within 10 years of that period and they had just started to come into their own, especially the old Fender jazz basses and old Rickenbackers and Gibsons. I'm always on the lookout. It's fun.

So, I don't know what is going to happen when the CD comes out, how well it will sell, etc. But, from a personal point of view, it was a very worthwhile endeavor.

I liked the fact that I was forced to get inside of my emotions and to really try to figure out a lot of what I was going through.

Then, once I have lyrics, being able to shape them around a song is nothing new for me, I've been doing that for 25 years. The soul searching part of it, the spontaneous part of it, that was, and remains, a really terrific process.

With me, satisfaction is always very fleeting with our work. I always get a little restless with it.