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I wasn't originally a bass player. I just found out I was needed, because everyone wants to play guitar.

I set myself up to be a bass guitarist and bass players get a lot more work than people like me.

So by the time I taught myself the bass guitar at the age of 14, my hands were already pretty nimble.

I played bass for a year, but I wasn't getting better at it, so I decided to stop so I could see my friends.

I realized pretty soon that I have to do more than just play bass in the background way. So, I developed a kind of playing which only a handful of musicians accepted.

Because nobody wanted to play bass, I was instantly in a band.

I still don't really feel like a bass player.

During college I realized I had a music predisposition and really got involved in it. I started playing bass guitar. That was how I began to fit in.

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.

You can actually go to school and college to learn how to play and get technical with the electric bass.