If an ensemble - I don't care if it's a duet or a forty-piece orchestra - the musicians, the two of them or the forty of them, are all trying to play as tight as possible, as one person. They're trying to play like they are one person.

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

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.

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

The first drum beat we all heard was our mother.

Going first is courageous. I'm just talking on a spirit level now.

When I wake up in the morning, I meditate immediately, before I even get out of bed.