Music is just kind of an expression of who I am. It's what I do.

You're only as good as your last record.

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.

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

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.

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

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.