So I am one of those bass players who can do something and musically, it was back then and now it is even more, if you noticed on the new album, I am not playing all the time anymore.

So our ears got used to listening to jazz in the place that it was that the bass player could not play. No one really realized it and really addressed it until the bass players who could play their instrument came along and started doing something with it.

So the whole basis for jazz music is based on the fact that the bass player could not play his instrument.

I'm not hiding who I am anymore - not pretending I'm something I'm not.

There's something safe about playing a character, but then it's like, 'Who am I underneath it all?'

Before, boxing was something that I did. Now, boxing is who I am.