I know that human beings are better together than they are apart, as much as I fought that all my life.

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.

When I was a kid I just had headphones on all the time, and it changed the way I see things and the way I interpret things.

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

When I play, I open up. I'm in the heat of the performance and it's a healing thing. It's great!

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.