I kept thinking there's bound to be something else? I could hear it sometimes, but I couldn't play it.

It's just music. It's playing clean and looking for the pretty notes.

Don't be afraid, just play the music.

I look at melody as rhythm.

Once I could play what I heard inside me, that's when I was born.

I don't care who likes it or buys it. Because if you use that criterion, Mozart would never have written Don Giovanni, Charlie Parker would have never played anything but swing music.

Some guys said 'Here's bop!' Wham! They said, 'Here's something we can make money on!' Wham! 'Here's a comedian!' Wham! Here's a guy who talks funny talk!'