I hate labels; the problem is that if you say you're one thing, it's hard for people to imagine you as something else. Music is way more complicated than that.

In so many ways, it feels the same now when I play as the very first time I picked up the instrument. There's always this sound out there that's just a little bit beyond my reach and I'm trying to get there and that just sort of keeps me going.

It's incredible how one song or even one little phrase or just a few notes, if you really concentrate on it, can be a kaleidoscope of possibility.

"Music, for me, has always been a place where anything is possible--a refuge, a magical world where anyone can go, where all kinds of people can come together, and anything can happen. We are limited only by our imaginations.

I've been lucky with the circle of people I'm playing with. We've played enough that there's a language we talk with each other when we play.

There's always this sound out there that's just a little beyond my reach & that just sort of keeps me going.

Every time I play with someone, not just a new person, but someone I've been with all along, that's where I really learn.