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

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.

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

I can write the stuff and play it myself and have something in my head, but the best feeling is when somebody else plays it and they're hearing something other than what I'm hearing.

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

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.