Some of my favorite music is incredibly repetitive, or on the surface has an element of repetition. But once you go beneath the surface, you realize ….

That's just the way people's brains work. If you want to talk about something, you have to reduce it to a form that can be understood. That's one of ….

I think I know what my bandmates like or are interested in or would be interested in doing. I take ideas and I develop them, get rid of some ideas, k….

I'm pretty resigned to the fact that I never hear music the way anyone else does, and I no longer find it surprising..

I make sure to hold onto everything, even the stuff I've gotten rid of, because if there's one thing I've learned about the band is that I'll bring s….

When I dream about music, or think about music, by myself, I try to be as free as possible and allow my creative mind full reign..

There's something bigger than improvised music versus pop music versus something else. What actually succeeds in being communicated are human feeling….

Any material can be treated in any number of ways. Sometimes I might hear something, or someone else might hear something, and say, "Wow, that sounds….

When I joined the band I was coming largely from an improvising background, and the idea of a fluid rhythm that was really coherent attracted me..

I can talk about feelings, but I can't talk about why this chord on top of this chord sounds cool to me. It just makes me feel a certain way, and I l….

For me, the voice expresses things that there are just no other ways to express..