I'm a musician. It's what I do! I wouldn't be too good at anything else.

I'm being a dad and a good husband.

I was in every band class I could get in, like after school jazz band and marching band, and that's where I really learned to read music from elementary all the way through junior high and high school.

I feel like in order to challenge yourself you have to get out of and do things that feel wrong at first and find new things. It's important to look for those things.

The juxtaposition of words - the color, feeling, and sound of the words together - has as much to do with the story as the narrative itself does.

Jazz can be so serious, no sense of humor.

In some of the L.A. clubs, people can act too cool to get into your music. That can get to be a bit much.