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.

Basically I'm always singing about the same stuff whether it's in a loud or quiet outfit.

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.

Anything lower than mid-six figures is not going to get me interested in that. And honestly, I just don't want to.

I really love that type of music where someone can take a guitar or light instrumentation and a beautiful voice and can send me somewhere.

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