The first drum beat we all heard was our mother.

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.

Why is there such passion for any sort of gossipy, provocative sensual stuff? It sells!

In your twenties, everything makes you crazy.

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.