So much of Jazz doesn't have an audience other than music students or musicians.

My job is to write songs that have emotional meaning to me.

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

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.

One of the things that's clear to me from interviews that I've read is that the more popular successful jazz musicians had audiences above and beyond the music community.

So much of Jazz doesn't have an audience other than music students or musicians.