It's a good place to experience music and see how sound works in the world.

[The zoo offers the tactile experience of sliding a bow across the strings of a fiddle, plucking a stand-up bass, pounding a drum, strumming a guitar or blowing into a trumpet.] I think of it as a mini museum, ... We have some basic knowledge of all the instruments. My main instrument is the mountain dulcimer, but we'll have a banjo, fiddle, mandolin, guitars, dulcimers and a washtub and stand-up bass. There will be a wind instrument area and lots of percussion instruments, including a limberjack. That's a board with a dancing man you bounce in time to the music.

Music should be a communal social experience, but in today's world 40% of music is purchased at places like Best Buy.

The Sun Studio experience was the thrill. It was like visiting the Mecca of the music world.

My music wouldn't sound the way it does if I hadn't had the experience of conducting.

We need to offer good salaries there because we are in a very competitive world and want good people,