There's not one Tin Pan Alley song on my record.

Everybody talks about finding your voice. Do your homework and your voice will find you.

It's hard to get into Newsweek because, as more of our former intellectual magazines take on a pop focus, if there's no buzz, there's no interest.

You hear it in your brain. Whatever makes sense. Some songs work well as quartet songs, sometimes they don't.

I like to make records sound good. I'm more like a reducer than a producer. If an artist cannot produce themselves, what's the point?

We played it as long as we could play it on that CD and I think it might be 50 minutes, maybe. What you have to do is play a couple of songs and then get off the stage because everything that trails it sounds stupid.

What is jazz? It, It's almost like asking, What is French? Jazz is a musical language. It's a musical dialect that actually embodies the spirit of America.