In regard to music, I just think that it's always best to have an attitude of being a perpetual student and always look to learn something new about music, because there's always something new to learn.

Instrumental music is increasingly marginalized and there's just no outlet, there's no venue for it, in terms of media.

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.

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

Ninety-nine percent of the music that was of any interest to me when I was growing up came out of the black community.

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.

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