I like interacting with human beings, so being on stage feels like a larger version of that - kind of like throwing a party.

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.

I feel vulnerable a lot interacting with human beings and being honest with people, and if I read their energy kind of not getting or shutting me down or this feeling of where we're not connecting, that's kind of a vulnerable place for me.

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

It's amazing, the look in your eyes, like you could save me, but you won't even try

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