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.

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

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.

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

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 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.