I don't know if I would qualify as mainstream. I think I have managed to function pretty successfully on the fringes of the music world and have been able to play exactly what I have wanted the way I have wanted

I love playing and working on music. It is something that I feel really lucky to be able to spend my life doing. And I don't sleep much!

There has to be a real strong reason to do something with someone for me.

Players get to that intermediate level where they can already play pretty good, and that's kind of a dangerous period because they tend to start playing only the things that they can play, rather than the things they can't.

Its more about conception and touch and spirit and soul than whether my hardware was in place.

Music is what you notice when it's no longer in your presence.

I think I have a basic sound aesthetic that is in most of what I do