Like no matter what happens, this would be the ultimate, they can make something positive happen.

Jazz to me is the spirit of freedom. I mean real freedom. Freedom to explore. Freedom to express. Freedom to pour out your guts.

I don't go around, the way many musicians do, with earbuds in my ear listening to my iPod all day and just sticking my head in the music all the time.

I learned the importance of being nonjudgmental, taking what happens and trying to make it work.That's something you should apply to life.

You make different colors by combining those colors that already exist.

It's not the style that motivates me, as much as an attitude of openness that I have when I go into a project.

There are a lot of records coming out, in every field of music, not just jazz.