I gave up my base in popular culture when I left the Tonight Show.

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

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

I gave up my base in popular culture when I left the Tonight Show.

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.

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

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