If you have some magical chemistry that actually find the music you make compelling, that is a big bonus.

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

I like to practice on the bass, but I don't do it as often as I should.

For me, there is a lot of room for improvement and there are a lot of things I would like to be better at.

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.

And the meek shall inherit the earth.

I worry about my voice 24/7 when I'm on tour. It's like a pitcher and his arm. It's constantly the thing that my whole life revolves around.