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This is my second bass that Paul built me. There were some changes that were made. Sometimes I think of changes that could be made having to do with both the sound and the feel. It's definitely a beautiful instrument.

I've always said the bass just happens to be the crayon I picked out of the box. I'd still be drawing the same pictures... should I have picked trumpet or accordion or guitar, whatever it may be. The sounds in my head are still the same.

I didn't follow the standard rules of bass playing, and many musicians on many different instruments who became noteworthy for their unique or particular style did a very similar thing.

I'm still trying to keep it original, staying true to my sound.

Sometimes a true original doesn't need to change a thing.

When I started to pick up the bass, it was purely by random chance.

Originality is simply a pair of fresh eyes.

Very few people are original. There's very little original anything out there. Because to be original means you have to stand alone.

I got my first real bass guitar in my hands when I was 14 - a 1957 Fender Precision, which is still hanging on the wall in my front room. I loved the heaviness of it and the feel of the wood. I still do.

I don't really know why I chose bass except that it was different than guitar.