I think that that's the way the music grows and changes and becomes new and creative and vital. It's by synthesizing elements from all around it and not to maintain this kind of rigid myopic kind of tunnel vision, in a sense, trying to maintain a certain kind of purity, or whatever.

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.

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

You never get it figured out. You just keep playing.

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.

Instrumental music is increasingly marginalized.

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.