There is not a sentence in the world that could respectfully do justice to the life and music of Jerry Garcia.

I'm not going to play funk licks on a jazz album. That makes no sense.

Humans are imperfect. That's one of the reasons that classical and jazz are in trouble. We're on the quest for the perfect performance and every note has to be right. Man, every note is not right in life.

There is not a sentence in the world that could respectfully do justice to the life and music of Jerry Garcia.

You know, being America, being the land of "number ones", everyone wants to be a leader before they follow.

My job is to write songs that have emotional meaning to me.

One of the things that I loved about listening to Miles Davis is that Miles always had an instinct for which musicians were great for what situations. He could always pick a band, and that was the thing that separated him from everybody else.