I love listening to Bossa Nova. That’s a big musical influence for me and I listen to everything from Astrud to Joao to Bebel Gilberto to Antonio Carlos Jobim, and it always takes me back to Cape Cod in the summers when I was younger vacationing there. It’s just very relaxing. When it’s high stress and I’m running around the city going to shows or rehearsing, I love to at some point just plug in my Ipod and sort of just relax, and it takes me back to that place.

Sometimes it takes me to this beach in Brazil. I’ve never been to Brazil, but for some reason it takes me there. Possibly because they are singing in Portuguese!

I love going back to the classics because I feel like through that you can bring your own kind of swagger to the things you’re doing now. So I love listening to Jobim and Astrud and that sort of Bossa Nova sort of style.

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