I have wit in my work and a sense of humor, but I do not use irony in any way

And I try to be as diplomatic as I can, but it always ends up being a psychodrama up there on stage.

Classical stuff takes a lot of rehearsal time and preparation, but with stuff that involves improvisation, you can over-rehearse it and it gets stale. You don't want it to be too comfortable. In fact, a good sound check, a good rehearsal usually means a bad performance.

I don't play favorites with people. My basic philosophy is that the only way to make the world a better place is by bringing something beautiful to every single person you run into at every moment of the day, so how can you play favorites with somebody?

I was always an outsider, proud of being an outsider. I always reveled in the outsiders.

For about seven years. I really like it there. There are a lot of great musicians. The scene is very open. A lot of stuff going on. People's ears are really open, they are not closed. A lot of scenes here, people just get tunnel vision and are into one thing.

We're not on the outside looking in, we're on the outside looking out.