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'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 feel so lucky that my high school was right in the middle of Denver, which is one of those sort of segregated towns, with black and white and Hispanic neighborhoods. But the school I went to was right in the middle of the whole thing.

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.

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

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

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.