Obviously, Sonic Youth has been a huge part of my life for many, many years, and I love all those guys dearly.
Charlie Parker is my greatest inspiration as a saxophone player - anything that involves him entails a large amount of respect.
I'd love to work with Sufjan Stevens. He so gets it. He's amazing.
Musicians don't respect a lot of the stuff that is on TRL and a lot of musicians think that stuff on the radio is not good musically so when musicians say that they like us it obviously feels good.
Grammy nominations are certainly pleasant, but you can forget about them and lead a perfectly happy life - provided you have the approval of the musicians you work with.
The drummer is stereotypically the dumb guy. Maybe that's why I always respect drummers who do more than drum.
And I think it's safe to say that the single very impressive figure to me was Merle Haggard.
People need to put my music in a perspective where they use other established artists from the past, and almost all the names I see related to my music are great musicians.
I have major respect for Kenny Chesney and Carrie Underwood and Sugarland. They are wonderful. They're superstars in the music business.
There are people these days who can do things on the guitar which are beyond my reach. There's one guy who plays with Queen who can do things I would dream of doing. I sincerely mean that.
