I'm basically a pretty shy person and I don't dance or get into fights. But there are all these things inside me that get out when I perform. It's like a real world when I play, here I can do all the things that I can't do in real life.

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.

To me, jazz is a place where anything is possible.

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.

I spend a lot of time copying saxophone players and trumpet players.

For me the music community was always like a model for what could be. The way people would play together, just harmony and being - old guys and young guys, black guys and white guys. It was setting an example for what the rest of us could be.

I do know the older I get, the more I'm referencing music I heard as a kid.