Life, the moment. Where the magic is. That's what really keeps me motivated, alive, hungry. I'm still as excited and motivated now as I was twenty-five years ago, and that's because I really live for those moments. And that's where the art comes from, that's where the music is born, that's where it all appears. I love it.

We've always just gotten up there and played. We don't have any dancers, we don't have all that stuff going on, we just get up there and play.

What motivates it is life. Life is everything. Life influences my music and brings it forth. Life is always changing, so I'm always hearing new music.

When I hear music, it's visual; I see things.

I don't play the tuba.

I basically camped out for a year and a half in an Airstream trailer on the beach out in front of the studio. I had no idea what I was gonna do, what kind of album I was gonna make - all I knew was that I wanted to sit there and just take in whatever came.

I am still into the people I listened to growing up, so I completely remember what is like to be a fan, I haven't changed.