In high school I was on the basketball team, but the coach did something I didn't dig and the next day he looked up and saw me practising with the football team.

Let my children have music! Let them hear live music.

Making the simple complicated is commonplace.

My music is evidence of my souls will to live.

Everything I do is Mingus.

Just because I'm playing jazz I don't forget about me. I play or write me, the way I feel, through jazz, or whatever.

I always wanted to be a spontaneous composer.