And there is a time where you can be beyond yourself. You can be better than your technique. You can be better than most of your usual ideas. And this is a whole other category that you can get into.

Jazz stands for freedom.

What I want to happen is to be really creative, and to play something new in the improvisations, every time.

Every individual should be expressing themselves, whether a politician or a minister or a policeman.

When I was first aware that I couldn't read music I didn't know I couldn't read because I could play the music that was in front of me.

Don't be a perfectionist... leave that to the classical musicians.

If I told you all the people that have secretly told me I've influenced them, you'd never believe it, and you'll never see it in print, either.