I'm a post-Abner Jay kind of guy mixed with Roger Corman and Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers.

Everybody in America is angry about something.

Is jazz a rhythm, or is it a vibration?

The word music is a convenient way to talk about what I'm interested in, but actually, in some ways, it's a limitation.

I had never thought that I would be involved in narrative structures. As a young guy, I was more interested in abstract modeling. But as I got older, I began to see that there was no reason to limit myself to any intellectual or conceptual postulate, when in fact I'm a professional student of music.

I thank the Creator of the universe to have discovered the discipline of music was the greatest gift that I could have been given, the possibility to be a student working in the world.

I am viewed as the Negro who has gone outside of the categories assigned to me.