The thing that makes me feel most alive would be when I'm hanging out with my family and feeling my connection with them and feeling safe and content in that.

I think I feel vulnerable most of the time. I feel on guard. I've gotten pretty good at putting my fists down and kind of allowing the world to be, so that I don't feel threatened as much.

Every day is the start of something beautiful.

When I play, I open up. I'm in the heat of the performance and it's a healing thing. It's great! It's like a spiritual elevation that occurs when you're playing and becoming one with the instrument or players on the stage. It takes on this incredible feeling of levitating and the molecules spin differently in the moment.

The only way I get back to my center is either by talking to my wife or by spending time by myself.

It's like a spiritual elevation that occurs when you're playing and becoming one with the instrument or players on the stage.

Staying present and staying myself in the midst of others is important.