I was 12 in '55 when rock and roll hit. It just completely transformed me.

I was coerced into taking piano lessons in the early '50s. It was a quite unpleasant experience.

Even by the time I was four or five, I had Gene Autry records.

I was 12 in '55 when rock and roll hit. It just completely transformed me.

Reading music is something that's inherently hateful to me. It makes music like mathematics.

My playing started to develop through the Miles Davis stuff I was listening to.

I never really followed grunge.