You know, being America, being the land of "number ones", everyone wants to be a leader before they follow.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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