We have something that is unique. We have our craft. We have our art. We have our desire.

I don't care who likes it or buys it. Because if you use that criterion, Mozart would have never written Don Giovanni, Charlie Parker never would have played anything but swing music. There comes a point at which you have to stand up and say, this is what I have to do.

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.

If it's not going to sound like Terrapin Station, what's the point of playing Terrapin Station?

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

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

I think that if you keep banging at the door all you need is a little foothold, a little tiny foothold, and then the rest will take care of itself.