First I was a European-style player, then I was a downtown 'noise guy,' and now some people call me an Americana guy.

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.

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.

"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.

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

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.