Clare Fischer was a major influence on my harmonic concept. He and Bill Evans, and Ravel and Gil Evans, finally. You know, that's where it really came from. Almost all of the harmony that I play can be traced to one of those four people and whoever their influences were.

Each human being exists because there's something they have to offer for the evolution of the universe that only they can fulfill.

I don't look at music from the standpoint of being a musician; I look at it from the standpoint of being a human being.

Creativity and artistic endeavors have a mission that goes far beyond just making music for the sake of music.

People always want to protect what's really going on inside. They want to kind of make visible something that looks more pleasant than what may be happening inside of themselves.

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

You don't need the fame to be vital.