Music Has Always Been Transnational.

I Want To Investigate Different Cultures, To See How Their Identities And Values Affect Their Music. It's One Way I Can Get To Know Our World, At Least To A Certain Depth.

I Play An Instrument That Has Four Strings, And I'm Still Trying To Get It Right. What I've Tried To Do In The Process Of Playing These Four Strings Is To Try And Understand The People I Meet, The Stories They Have To Tell. And Then Become An Advocate For Them And Their Stories Through Music.

Culture Opens Our Hearts To One Another. And The Currency In Culture Is Not Money, But Trust.

Things Can Fall Apart, Or Threaten To, For Many Reasons, And Then There's Got To Be A Leap Of Faith. Ultimately, When You're At The Edge, You Have To Go Forward Or Backward; If You Go Forward, You Have To Jump Together.

What Came Up At Age 49 Is I Realized That Of All The Things I'm Interested In, The Thing I'm Most Interested In Is Figuring Out What Makes People Tick, Why People Think The Way They Do, Why They Act The Way They Do. And I Realized That Music Is Such A Great Way To Investigate Why People Do What They Do.