We all played bad before we played good.

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

One of the things that I loved about listening to Miles Davis is that Miles always had an instinct for which musicians were great for what situations. He could always pick a band, and that was the thing that separated him from everybody else.

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

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

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.

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.