The absence of a bass player always makes things go faster and hit harder in the high-end range.

When you get a chance to play with people - informally is one thing, but when you hook up and make something that's going to last or mean something to someone, I take it very seriously.

I never knew Kurt to be suicidal. I just knew that he was going through a really tough time.

The absence of a bass player always makes things go faster and hit harder in the high-end range.

It's like soul music, isn't it all soul music? Otherwise what is it, non-soul music? I-have-no-soul music? Soulless music? People need to put a name on something to identify it, and I understand it.

Working with different people and do things that normally I would not do makes the music interesting for me to continue. It keeps me alive. When I'm doing something alone, that is mine, I know how it is. But when I'm working with someone else, I also see the view from the other, and usually learn something new, try something different. This is very important to my happiness.

I've never presented myself as anything less than a flawed person.