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

My dad was a musician, it was just what he did, like another guy's dad drives a meat truck. Our house was normal. We weren't taken with the fact our dad was a musician.

We played it as long as we could play it on that CD and I think it might be 50 minutes, maybe. What you have to do is play a couple of songs and then get off the stage because everything that trails it sounds stupid.

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

Coltrane came to New Orleans one day and he was talking about the jazz scene. And Coltrane mentions that the problem with jazz was that there were too few groups.

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