Everybody talks about finding your voice. Do your homework and your voice will find you.

One of the things that I loved about listening to Miles Davis is that Miles always had an instinct for which musicians were great for what situations. He could always pick a band, and that was the thing that separated him from everybody else.

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

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

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

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.

Pop doesn't really look back. It can't. What makes pop work is simplicity.