I've had the pleasure of playing with the baddest Jazz cats on the planet.

The first time I tried to sing along with my guitar, everybody in the studio booed. They all said it wouldn't work.

I spent a lot of time teaching myself theory and harmony so I could be free to express myself on the instrument.

Of course we've lost so many superstars who've made jazz what it is. We've lost so many musicians who created new things and changed the way we think about music and who took jazz to a new level. So jazz is suffering from that. But we still have a lot of incredible people playing jazz in the world. We have a lot of people leading the way.

I have been doing music all my life so everyday when I get up I expect music will be part of it.

People who love jazz musicians love us when we play what we want to play and we're starving. But as soon as you commercialize your sound like Wes Montgomery did, the jazz fans and the critics are down on you!

I listen to other guitar players, yeah. It gives me new concepts and shows me where the instrument is going for the future and it is going some places. There are some musicians who are really putting out a good vibe with new theories. I try and keep up.