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.

If it's not going to sound like Terrapin Station, what's the point of playing Terrapin Station?

If youre going to use standards as criteria for signing musicians, you can sign thousands. If youre going to use some sort of conceptual interpretation thats based on the tradition of those standards, but is trying to move away from it, youre down to about 10 people or so.

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.

You hear it in your brain. Whatever makes sense. Some songs work well as quartet songs, sometimes they don't.

We have something that is unique. We have our craft. We have our art. We have our desire.