If I'm not a jazz player all the time, I've at least been cued in to what I do by jazz.

I think you have to be completely merciless with yourself.

I believe that a truly valuable artist must be an artist who realizes the impossibility of his task -and then continues to do it.

You know, when people look at a tree, they look at the leaves; they don't look at the spaces between the leaves. They're focused on the tree. I think there's an awareness of spaces or it wouldn't look like a tree to them.

I am a romantic, I admit it.

I cannot say what I think is right about Music. I only know the rightness of it.

I'm not talking ideas, or even presentation. It's like in politics: You have to sell something to become an electric player - like your skin or your heart.