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

I'll forget about you long enough to forget why I need to

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

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.

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!

I just want my kid to not hate and to be a good human. That's what you try to do. You hope that they are the next evolution of your thing.