You can expand, repeat, even change keys and do other things electronically to give certain elements and phrases more cohesiveness.

A jazz musician is not a jazz musician when he or she is eating dinner or when he or she is with his parents or spouse or neighbors. He's above all a human being . . . the true artform is being a human being.

In the world of Art there are no wrong choices.

So much of what I create has been due to the influence of Miles Davis and Donald Byrd, and so many of those that have passed on. Their music, their legacy lives on with the rest of us because we are so highly influenced by their experience and what they have given us.

I'm always interested in looking forward toward the future. Carving out new ways of looking at things.

You can practice to learn a technique, but I'm more interested in conceiving of something in the moment.

I'm always looking to create new avenues or new visions of music.