I don't really have a favorite bass player. I listen to a lot of bluegrass. But then again, I'm not a typical bluegrass bass player. I was really into the Grateful Dead, and I still am - I don't listen to them too much, but for me they are a big influence.

Right after I graduated, my girlfriend, who I had been going out with for five years, dumped me, and my grandmother died.

I guess there are two things that make me like songs generally, of ours, and that is if they groove well, or if they have a jam that can go somewhere.

As long as we keep learning new music and getting better musically, there's a good chance that the record deal won't change anything.

The worst thing I could be thinking is how could I be a cool bass player.

I feel like I want to write some songs and I don't know how to go about doing it. Usually it's the lyrics that are a problem, and I think I am not really cut out to be a lyricist.

In order to have that incredible groove that makes you dream you have to think not of the groove, but of the dream.