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.

Arts is like the power of now. When you're performing, when you're playing, when you're sculpting, painting, it's that moment. I'm in the moment of my life, and that's what I love to do.

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

I find that it's nice to work with somebody and spin off on someone else's feelings. You get a little jaded by yourself.

The trumpet was not a lyrical singing instrument.

Clifford Brown was in the jazz circles considered to be probably the greatest trumpet player who ever lived.

It's - as opposed to tape where you have a magnetic tape that's excited by frequencies that you hit, digital was a process where musical sounds are transferred to numbers and stored as numbers.