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

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.

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?

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

We all played bad before we played good.

I think that if you keep banging at the door all you need is a little foothold, a little tiny foothold, and then the rest will take care of itself.

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