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

We all played bad before we played good.

The biggest problem with American music right now, is that kids don't listen. They come by it honestly, Americans don't listen anyway. When people go to concerts, they say I'm going to see... not, I'm going to hear.

If it's not going to sound like Terrapin Station, what's the point of playing Terrapin Station?

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

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

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?