One interesting thing - I play bass and guitar and stuff like that. I know those instruments really well. But I don't know how to play clarinet or tr….

Writing for chamber ensemble is the thing that excites me the most. So when I went down into the cistern, I didn't know that I was going to make a re….

Usually when you're playing with other people in not such a reverberant room, you have to be quick on your feet and think about stuff really quickly.….

Of course, right away I got more interested in the far-out jazz than the traditional jazz, so I quickly was turned onto the John Zorn scene and all t….

I guess travelling that kind of long distance and travelling at such a slow pace, it wasn't something that I was thinking about when I was inside of ….

Arranging is sort of the most exciting part of making music right now for me. I really enjoy the process of arranging because you're given all the ti….

I was going to say is that I come from a rock background, but also I was super interested in jazz for a long time. I was training to be a jazz musici….

It's kind of like being a writer in the sense that you always hear other writers say, 'Well, the best way to start writing is to just start writing.'….

I remember being on Hawaii when I sailed to Hawaii. It felt unsettling to be walking around there because I was thinking, "This place could just sink….

Being raised on a boat felt like it was totally normal to me. I was just another kid hanging out, doing this and that. My girlfriend and I had a funn….

The amazing thing about the cistern is that, if you're improvising in a dead room, you play your note and then you're left with your thoughts and you….

I can start playing ukulele and then I'll go to a note that I think will be there, but because of the tuning, it's a completely different note. That ….

People always say that music is a universal language. It was very, very true. We could show up anywhere with any people speaking different languages ….

I did one year of school and I was doing correspondence school, which was actually another happy accident. Correspondence school is basically home sc….