I started playing bass for the same reason everyone else does – I’m a lousy guitarist.

When people start writing songs for award shows, there's a very limited palette you can use. You end up not sounding like you. You end up sounding like somebody else. You end up getting what the record company thinks they can market.

Music's awesome, it's the closest thing we have to magic.

All my religious beliefs are based on Star Wars.

Listen to the silence. Listen to your life. Be present, not just think about what's going on next week, next month.

I started playing bass for the same reason everyone else does – I’m a lousy guitarist.

When I listen to songs, I can smell a rat. I like songs that speak to me with some deeper truth.