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.

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.

Coltrane came to New Orleans one day and he was talking about the jazz scene. And Coltrane mentions that the problem with jazz was that there were too few groups.

If I were like a lot of other people, then it wouldn't be fun; but since I'm like me, it's okay.

You don't know what you like, you like what you know. In order to know what you like, you have to know everything.

A lot of musicians have a tough time hearing what we're doing in a trio format.