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

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.

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.

As a melody instrument player, it's all about getting from one note to the next, and those intervals and how you navigate your way through these vertical structures of chords. You realize that everything's moving forward and it's all linear.

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

When you have an acoustic bass in the ensemble it really changes the dynamic of the record because it kind of forces everybody to play with a greater degree of sensitivity and nuance because it just has a different kind of tone and spectrum than the electric bass.

You're only as good as your last record.