At The Risk Of Sounding Hopelessly Romantic,

When You Open Box After Box Of Old Comics And They're All "archie," You Have Suffered A Trauma From Which It Is Difficult To Ever Recover.

Everyone Can Lock Into The Rhythm On A Tune. It's Organic In Nature. It Connects The Band As A Whole And Connects The Band To The Audience.

In A Certain Sense, These Were Lessons I Learned By Playing With Indian Musicians. The Rhythmic Forms That They Use Are Very Complex, And Very Challenging. In Order To Play In Fifteen, Or Eleven, Or Seven Or Even Five, You Have To Have Mastered That Time In Order To Be Able To Be Free With The Music.

If I Can Get Out Of The Way, If I Can Be Pure Enough, If I Can Be Selfless Enough, And If I Can Be Generous And Loving And Caring Enough To Abandon What I Have In My Own Preconceived Silly Notions Of What I Think I Am - And Become Truly Who In Fact I Am, Which Is Really Just Another Child Of God - Then The Music Can Really Use Me. And Therein Lies My Fulfillment. That's When The Music Starts To Happen.

Only In Spontaneity Can We Be Who We Truly Are.