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.

I think there's a great beauty to having problems. That's one of the ways we learn.

Wisdom corresponds to the future; it is philosophy.

I hope that I can make good music out of whatever genre I go into. Just to prove to myself that I can.

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

One of the greatest attributes of jazz, I think, is that it is that open.

I try to practice with my life.