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If you are making music for other people, you will have to be aware of how people relate to it.

As a musician and a songwriter, it is an act of the ego to believe that other people might be interested in your point of view. But it is usually an empathetic nature that gets you going in the first place. Music keeps the heart porous in many ways.

You've got a song you're singing from your gut, you want that audience to feel it in their gut. And you've got to make them think that you're one of them sitting out there with them too. They've got to be able to relate to what you're doing.

Sometimes one of us will have a riff or a bass line from home but it really gels when we come together. We really have a strong special chemistry that we take advantage of when we get together.

Sometimes you get so jaded, you don't have those initial connections and emotions with music, because you are promoting your own.

You get a lot of who you are as a musician across through the music you write. If you're writing your own music, then it's important to be really honest.

Everything I do is collaborative. It's just my way. I'm really very interested in how the other musicians perceive the song.

For me, if the music is good, whether the artist is famous or unknown, I love being part of the music and contributing what I can to the bass end.

I have always thought it was important to maintain some connection for myself to what it takes to make a song work by myself, to put a song across to an audience by myself.