It is the human things that make life good, the unexpected kindness, the friendly note, the bracing word, the neighbour's extra loaf of bread she leaves at our back door.

Lots of times I'll play lead and rhythm together.

I'm just doing the best I can now to keep this going... trying to grow up and remain young at the same time.

The whole deal is when you walk onstage, you're up there bigger than life. People idolize you.

Jazz changes and all. But I don't know the names of what it is I'm doing.

I've put my life back together, but it's all a growing process and that's neat, too, because if you stop growing, what good is it musically? So that is what I am looking forward to - growing. In some ways, I felt stagnant in my life and it showed.

After I changed the string we picked up right where we left off - and punched back in at the same time. I don't know if this has ever been done before. The engineer sort of looked at us weird, but we got it on the first take.