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

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

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'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.

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

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.

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