I started playing piano when I was 6, ukulele at 7.

I started playing the ukulele in the year 2000. That sounds so futuristic saying it like that. The year 2000.

I wanted to play rocking country music, and when I started out in the late Seventies, it took me a couple of albums to figure out how to do that.

My grandma passed in '78, and that's the year I started recording. It's also the year that my dad retired from his career. So it's funny how torches get passed on, and you feel a responsibility to be connected to the music that they did and try to carry it on in your own way.

I had a ukulele when I was about seven. Then I started playing around with the mandolin and the banjo.

I started playing piano when I was 7. And I started with classical lessons. Then I really got exposed to jazz.