I like forms that are flexible, that can let you feel creative.

Who isn't a fan of Ray Charles?

Hang on to your eccentricities, because they will give you a style.

...The key to playing with any group is you listen all the time and you listen more than you play.

We don't want any vocalist messing up the music.

When you compare music, you lose the joy of listening to it.

One thing people always ask me is 'How do you play outside?' ... I have no idea how to teach that, but when I was discussing this with our bass player Jesse Murphy, he said 'tell them to go cliff diving'... In other words, when you're jamming, you have to take risks if you want to find new sounds.