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.

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

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

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.

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?

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