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

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

There is not a sentence in the world that could respectfully do justice to the life and music of Jerry Garcia.

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

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

There's not one Tin Pan Alley song on my record.

The way to learn the language is to rip off other players. As Benny Golson told me, "We all start off sounding like other cats. And gradually, a lick here or there,we start to sound like ourselves. But it takes a long time to do so..." That'swhat he told me, and it worked for me.