It wasn't until after private lessons and learning bass lines that I even noticed bass in the music I was listening to at that age. My ears were blown wide open.

Now I am obsessed with collecting Platypus paraphernalia.

It's too hard for me to comment on the sorry state of our culture.

Pop culture is not about depth. It's about marketing, supply and demand, consumerism.

If you want music that speaks to you, that LISTENS to you, you have to go out of your way, which I enjoy actually. I'm constantly on a private-eye kick to find the totally obscure

Bungle is definitely a priority right now.

But I also like to be in control, like anyone else. I try to achieve a balance.