My dad was a musician, it was just what he did, like another guy's dad drives a meat truck. Our house was normal. We weren't taken with the fact our dad was a musician.

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

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.

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

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

If you listen to a lot of the songs that are popular now, there's very little melody in there. People love the beat. But to musicians, it's melody, because we understand how elusive it is and how hard it is to hold.

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