I'm just trying to avoid any sort of generic kind of music - I don't want to do generic jazz or fusion.

If I'm playing a violin thing, for instance, I tend to respond to that sound with the way I finger.

If you're a guitarist, you should not be intimidated by using your instrument as a synthesizer, but you shouldn't feel that you have to own one, either.

I don't have a great nostalgia for the past.

I actually think I play better now than Ive ever played.

If you're 20 years old, you've grown up without buying albums.

I don't like playing standards. I like to do my own cutting edge work.