I wake up in the morning, I do a little stretching exercises, pick up the horn and play.

When I finish an album and I find myself listening to it in the car, because it makes me feel a certain way, that's the time to try to let other people know about it.

I wake up in the morning, I do a little stretching exercises, pick up the horn and play.

I think jazz is a phenomenal creative force, because it's one man, one vote as you're playing, but it's a collective thing, what you're doing. You're listening to all the musicians around you and you're working within that structure.

I like to listen to classical music... I like mainline jazz.

I confess that I listen to my own music for my own pleasure.

I was taken in by the bravado and the sounds of Mexico... not so much the music, but the spirit.