I’ve worked with cars since I was 12 years old. I work on my house, doing plumbing and electricity and installing carpets.

I like doing blue collar stuff with my hands. I feel it keeps me grounded to people who don’t have the gift that I have. People involved in art, many times, can lose touch with regular folks. To me, art isn’t good unless it speaks to regular folks.

I’ve always enjoyed watching carpenters, roofers, brick layers. Any type of blue collar work, I’ve always liked it.

Music isn’t relaxing, it’s emotionally draining. At least at the level that I try to perform it. So I try to relax by fixing things. Over my lifetime I’ve learned to do a lot of that. But the first thing was working on cars.