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

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.

Pop doesn't really look back. It can't. What makes pop work is simplicity.

The biggest problem with American music right now, is that kids don't listen. They come by it honestly, Americans don't listen anyway. When people go to concerts, they say I'm going to see... not, I'm going to hear.

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

So much of Jazz doesn't have an audience other than music students or musicians.

Jazz is so incestuous that it's starting to kill itself.