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Some people misconstrue our band just to be a commercial venture.

Let's point out the elephant in the room: Actor bands are not notoriously successful enterprises. I can't think of any.

Most of your day is spent working, and being in a band is no different. We're just business travelers in a way.

I can show bands how to produce themselves. In the same way, many bands think you can't make it without some fat cat in London or New York to manage you. That's just crap. All you need is someone a bit older than you with a bit of business nous whom you trust.

I'm not into bands for the sake of being into bands. I've grown past that. There was a time in my life when I was that guy.

You have to keep the business side together as well as the creative side. We have constantly surprised people and stayed with bands until they have grown on people.

I've worked with a number of big bands, but there's nothing in life like the Basie band.

We try and stay out of the corporate side of it. The band has never compromised. At some point in our career we could have made a certain type of record and sold millions of units, as they are called.

Music is a language and different people who come along are each using that language to do something different, but all coming at it in a similar vein inasmuch as it's always community based and for the most part nonprofit. Most bands don't ever come within a mile of profit - clearly these people are not playing music to make money.

To me, I'm for a band whose forefront is the music.