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.

Coltrane came to New Orleans one day and he was talking about the jazz scene. And Coltrane mentions that the problem with jazz was that there were too few groups.

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

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

The biggest problem with American music right now, is that kids don't listen. They come by it honestly, Americans don't listen anyway. When people go to concerts, they say I'm going to see... not, I'm going to hear.

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.