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

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

You're only as good as your last record.

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.

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

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.