Since my 20s, I've tried to learn a new instrument every couple of years. And when I say learn, I mean own. I'll buy one and then out of guilt I start trying to learn it. And I often find that some of my best music comes from the early stages with that new instrument, because I'm not bringing the great history of Paganini to the violin when I pick it up. Instead, I'm bringing some kind of scratchy, hanging-on-by-my-fingernails attempt to gain entry into that musical language.