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.

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.

If I were like a lot of other people, then it wouldn't be fun; but since I'm like me, it's okay.

It's hard to get into Newsweek because, as more of our former intellectual magazines take on a pop focus, if there's no buzz, there's no interest.

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 don't care who likes it or buys it. Because if you use that criterion, Mozart would have never written Don Giovanni, Charlie Parker never would have played anything but swing music. There comes a point at which you have to stand up and say, this is what I have to do.

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