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

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

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.

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

Everybody talks about finding your voice. Do your homework and your voice will find you.

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

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.