I'll just sit at the piano a lot an play like through different chord exercises and kind of just throwing my hands down on the piano from one chord to the next to see what happens.

Instrumental music is increasingly marginalized.

Its all about finding the right note at the right place and knowing when to leave well enough alone. And that's a lifelong quest.

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

I have pretty ecumenical tastes. I'm interested in a lot of different kinds of music, so I don't listen with a jaundiced ear to music because it's in a certain category, whether it's country or opera or hip-hop or bebop or whatever it is.

I think 'Horace Silver' was actually the first live jazz group I ever heard back when I was a kid in St. Louis. So along with most players of my generation, I have a real affection for the music of 'Horace Silver.

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.