A lot of my video work is super lo-fi on purpose. I'm not trying to become technically super proficient. The only thing I'm interested in becoming te….

The saxophone was created to mimic the human voice and I think that's why I gravitated toward the saxophone eventually. I'd loved the clarinet, but t….

Listening to the birds tells you different things about a place. I heard bird sounds I'd never heard before. I heard street sounds and country sounds….

New York is beautiful, but [the South] makes it look like a wasteland..

I love making people sing. I love group singing, sacred harp singing, choral singing, recordings of people singing sea shanties, work songs, prison s….

When you read enough stories about people who have been through different levels of trauma, and it doesn't matter what the history is, trauma is trau….

I love working with my hands. The computer has taken over my life in a way that makes me really uncomfortable. I'm trying to find a happy medium that….

It's nice that people can call me an artist and it's nice that I can refer to myself as such, but it also kind of separates me from the common man in….

It's important to interrogate history, it's important to document history, because as a society we need constant reminders of the things that we've d….

Someone can do anything they want to you on the outside, but whatever they do to me they cannot destroy what's on my inside. Mentally that cannot be ….

Leading a band is fun, but it's not always something I want to continually focus on. I have my toes in a lot of different things..

I'm a history geek and I love American history. It's so bizarre and so problematic and I love the many conundrums that it represents. You can go down….

I have a really big interest in the spirit world: spooks and the things we can't necessarily see but feel..