I've been very blessed to make a living in stuff I love and am totally passionate about, music and writing. So I'm eager to see what the day will bring, how I will feed that passion.

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

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.

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

The first drum beat we all heard was our mother.

Fortunately, an extremely sexy, pixie-voiced blond named Ronnie Harran, who booked the Whisky, saw us...She had an ear for talent...the Whisky was finally a gig we could be proud of.

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.