When I was younger, I was always a musician that could play by ear better than I could analytically.

I don't know if I can handle living in Tokyo. I feel like the culture shock would be so intense, especially with the service industry in America - you can't make up for that. Once you get a chance to travel a lot, you start to realize when that waitress comes back and asks you if you want some more to drink, that's an important moment. Nobody else does that!

When I was younger, I was always a musician that could play by ear better than I could analytically.

As time progressed, my songwriting developed out of my bass, because that's all I could do. I decided to take it as far as it could go and to use my skill as a tool.

Japoneese people take themselves very serious and you can see it by everything they do - it's like a different part of the scale or spectrum in being a human, and it's something we're not used to seeing in America. And then when you see it, you do have the moments of infatuation; you get caught up in it, but there's so much more to it.

Growing up playing jazz and improvising has had a big impact on me, and it translates into my music.

I remember swallowing my tooth up in a high chair, but I definitely don't remember the first time I played bass. It was like, back there!