Jazz has always been a melting pot of influences and I plan to incorporate them all.

There's the juiciest music that makes me so happy, music that I need on that deserted island when I'm stranded for the rest of my life, and nobody cares that it's there.

You can grow up with literally nothing and you don’t suffer if you know you’re loved and valued.

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.

I am insubordinate by nature. I can't help it.

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

For what I can imagine and feel and think and hear, I can hardly do anything on the acoustic bass. It used to be just pure frustration of imagining so much more and being able to get to a certain level of execution.