Certain things in life are more important than the usual crap that everyone strives for.

I am myself for a living. I don't animate a character.

That's the motivation of an artist - to seek attention of some kind.

I don't build no heathen temples, where the Lord has done laid a hand. There's a well on the hill, let it be.

Somehow it helps just to take something that's internal and externalize it, to see it in front of you.

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.

I believe musicians have a duty, a responsibility to reach out, to share your love or pain with others.