It's hard to avoid the past but one goes forward.

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

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

It's exciting to see if you can create something that sounds, at least to your own ears, exciting.

You're on the stage and you've got all those people yelling at you, so you better be right in the moment, reacting to that. It's completely live and organic. Even 20 years later, it's the same thing. You may be even better on your instrument. Hopefully, you are.

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

You don't want to be so far off the planet that you come out with something that doesn't make sense to anybody.