My first guitar, a Fender Jazz Master, I traded it in for a Les Paul Deluxe.

I found it a really refreshing change of pace to suddenly be completely directed. It was a type of collaboration that I don't normally have.

I get a lot of joy from playing instruments, and I have a different personality on each instrument. I like to let that come out. I get kind of selfish.

Today, people are more into the glitz and the glamour of everything. We don't even read the inside of records anymore.

The story that I wanna tell is pretty much about the way I grew up. Being bi-racial, growing up in a big city and being an artist.

It's interesting to be playing a father who's on the other side because that's not my world and not where I came from.

Every night is different, you never know what it's going to be like. I remember every night. I don't like to compare them.