I took the frets out of my bass after I was getting into jazz a lot and I wanted to have that upright sound.

Music is the only thing keeping the planet together

Music is in the air; it's my job to pull it out.

A chimpanzee could learn what I do physically, but it goes way beyond that. When you play, you play life.

The secret to the sound is to drop the bass on the floor!

All you've got to do is keep your ears open.

I'm not a star. I'm just backing up the cats.

Women and rhythm-section first!?

Trumpets! Can you bring your... uh... extracurricular tubing necessities next rehearsal?

History is the lie. History's words stain otherwise pristine books, drops of inky poison frosted in sugared deception.

I have this amazing life.

Big Dreams start with small unreasonable acts

I like projects in which I can really act and not be me all the time.

Count the day won, when the earth, turning on its axis, imposes no additional taxes

pain can work form the outside in.

Running made me feel like a bird let out of a cage, I loved it that much.

Most of us have the tools we need, we're just not sure how to use them.

The nature of happiness is such that happiness retreats the more intensely you pursue it.

art is exposure. And until you've developed a degree of maturity to handle that knowledge, you are revealing what other people keep hidden.