Pinball is Flippin’ Awesome
“Pinball has a really interesting history and it’s been knocked down several times, but it always comes back and I expect it will go through dips and surges again, but in the end it will always rebound.”
“Taiko is all about hitting big drums with big sticks, as hard as you can, and feeling it!”
“I was told at one point by a surgeon that I'd never be able to do sit-ups and needed to stop playing taiko drums. So I said ‘okay’ and I kept on playing since this very practice helped me through the cancer episodes.”
Creativity Knows No Boundaries
“If you feel you are artistic, well you most likely are artistic. It’s part of my sanity – I have to make things. I could be sitting here making PowerPoints all day, but then I’m going to go home and crochet a pizza rat or something. It’s just one of those things – arts have always been a part of my life.”
Keeping The Beat Going
“If we could time-travel back just half a decade, there’s no way I could’ve predicted that today I’d have an FM radio show and a newspaper column dedicated to local music.”
Rockin’ in Concord
“Carole is a real-life wizard; she has a bank of mouthpieces for every single instrument that comes through and she’ll test it to figure out right away what needs to be done. You know, there’s nothing that Carole works on that she can’t play? She’s amazing.”