Up-and-coming musicians can easily reach out and find a loving teacher, and that's definitely what happened to me.

I fear that I won't get better and that I won't have time to practice. To be called a "jazz musician" - it's a big responsibility.

Up-and-coming musicians can easily reach out and find a loving teacher, and that's definitely what happened to me.

I did grow up in a rough neighborhood in Portland, which is an abstract concept for anybody who's rolled through Portland because now it looks like a TV set, literally.

Whoever you are, if you know what you're doing, you don't want other people to overtake the merit of your art.

I’m not gonna sit around and waste my precious divine energy trying to explain and be ashamed of things you think are wrong with me.

I just think music is so intrinsically linked with images in the culture that we live in that youll be hard-pressed to have an experience with the music without a preconceived notion.