Old is unwanted. You don't find Thais going to the thrift store. They want new clothes. They want the newest cell phone..

Everyone's a singer now, thanks to karaoke, for better and for much worse. But the live band is now becoming ancient history in Thailand, Cambodia, a….

My sense of humor keeps me from committing atrocities! I love rearranging words and destroying language and the established forms of art and music/ch….

Almost all the bars in Southeast Asia are lady bars. The listener and participants who interact and frequent the clubs are exclusively male who becom….

The lyrics are not an important thing to me. In fact, it can be a distraction. If I knew the language enough to know it was a horrible love song with….

I don't speak anything very well. The longer that you travel, you find out that you really don't even need to speak the language to get around and ge….

I like traditional music. I listen to a lot of it. There is no particular reason to present these recordings. I love what I do so I find ways to keep….

In terms of perceptions of the culture, most people don't think about music. They're not concerned with it. They don't take their musical legacy seri….

There hasn't been a true breakdown or effort to break Thai music into genres. They're not into dicing and slicing everything up..

I've had to adjust to karaoke as a modern reality that obscures our hunt for what we're truly after..