Growing up, I fantasized about being a rock musician and that somehow it would be really easy. I didn't realize that it's so much work.

I like songs that go to different places and then come back.

I have a piano and a guitar, and I tend to switch back and forth between those two instruments to help me get inspired.

I like songs that have lots of different parts in them, an intro, an outro and a bridge.

I love general history. That's all I read really. I don't read novels, I read history. I love it. I live in an area that's really rich in Civil War history. I live in Kentucky on a farm. A lot of revolution, a lot of military history I love.

In my 40s, the two cultures finally came to peace with one other inside me, and I have come to identify myself as both 100% Chinese and 100% American simultaneously.

I feel like I play better when I'm calm. There is an inner peace I can tap into sometimes during my matches.

As long as there is rape... there is not going to be any peace or justice or equality or freedom. You are not going to become what you want to become or who you want to become. You are not going to live in the world you want to live in.