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

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

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 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.

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.

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

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