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.

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

I'm not going to play funk licks on a jazz album. That makes no sense.

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.

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