If you're an addict, it controls your life and your life becomes uncontrollable. It's boring and painful, filling your system with something that makes you stare at your shoes for six hours.

I had a very moral upbringing, and spiritual in a sort of not very specific way.

All it really needed was the proper point of view. No one's gonna bring me down.

You have to choose whether to love yourself or not.

I'm trying to look at my blessings and how amazingly well against all odds things have turned out for me.

I think good music makes you feel free, and if people feel free when they come to a show or listen to my music, that would mean the world to me.

I'm often surprised by classical music and musicians. I've met a large number of them because my wife works for the Boston Symphony, and I'm in that world a lot now. I'm surprised at how difficult it is for people who are classically trained to read music or to memorize music, how difficult it is for them to improvise, to just go off and play. It's sort of, it's like terra incognita. They just, (makes noise) they don't get it.