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Essentially, I'm a storyteller, and I make my living by telling stories, be they music or nonfiction or fiction.

Music helps me tell my story. That's where I can really be heard. But there's so much focus on the things that aren't music.

I like to tell stories through dancing and singing.

From early on there were two things that filled my life - music and storytelling, both of them provoked by my father. He was a jazz pianist and also a very good storyteller, an avid reader. He passed both those interests on to me.

My main thing is music; it's what I do.

When you do music, your friends are writers, actors, painters. It's all under the same roof. So anything creative is interesting to me.

My taste in music and entertainment is quite eclectic.

I'm not in a certain type of genre, and I can't be categorized or pigeonholed. That leaves a wide range of what I can do for myself, for other people, and with other people.

I almost chose the career of an ethnomusicologist because I was so fascinated by that music. It gives a different feeling of time.