Improvisation is the courage to move from one note to the next.

It's not that I don't love the song. My songs are like my children: some you want around and some you want to send off to college as soon as possible.

Inviting audiences to open up and hear things differently is an important part of what I do. But I still love to sing songs with words, too.

To be a musician, you have to be honest... to be honest... to be honest.

I prepared five songs, I sang them, and he hired me. I started working about a month later at the piano bar.

The audience is like my instrument. It's not just me up there, it's collaborative.

Musicians are the architects of heaven.