Musicians always come off sounding a little bit pretentious, and a little bit... I don't know, hypocritical, from what they do, talking about strong issues.

So there was something of a learning curve with doing your own thing and people seeing you outside of the band. I mean, people have never really heard my voice before - or heard a whole record of mine before. So it was a completely new experience.

I'm happy doing different things. Being in a band is great, but being in a band can be difficult sometimes.

No, I've heard over the years that it's nice for them to see somebody who's like, you know, a well-known successful musician who's Asian. I've heard it from a few musicians, too.

I started a recording studio. I started producing people and doing remixes.

I live most of the time in New York now. I have an apartment there.

My first job in NYC was playing a gig in the early nineties at CBGBs.