When I make records, I never listen to stuff after it's done. Ever.

My name is on the thing, but the reality of it is, when I get up there on stage, I'm part of a band. I'm part of a unit. It's like a basketball team.

In most of the stuff that I've done over the years as a sideman, I wasn't really a session musician, because to me, a session musician is a guy who makes his living in the studio, and I never really did that.

When I make records, I never listen to stuff after it's done. Ever.

To me, the object of practicing is to allow you to play what you hear. But you're always hearing new things, so you never get to the end of it.

Jazz music by its very nature is just a conglomerate of a lot of different kinds of music.

I look at the artistic process as like experiencing the world, channeling it through your personality and sending it back out there. That's the process.