Bass players and drummers are brothers in the basement cooking up the groove that makes people move.

The more the ensemble, the duet or the forty piece orchestra, plays as one person, the more it makes people dance, because you're back in the womb. You feel mom's heartbeat. It makes you move. It reminds you of that warm, groovy space you were in.

We have our own little heartbeat, too. We already have what I would call polyrhythms going on.

I believe in the mystery, and I don't want to take it any further than that. Maybe what I mean by that is love.

When an ensemble is really tight or playing as one, it's a transcendental experience. It is spiritual. It goes beyond the ensemble. Ray and I and Robby and Jim were pretty tight, musically and spiritually.

Bass players and drummers are brothers in the basement cooking up the groove that makes people move.

I was raised Catholic. I didn't appreciate the guilt and sin part of it.