I started off with classical music, and I got into jazz when I was about 14 years old. And I've been playing jazz ever since.

You would not exist if you did not have something to bring to the table of life.

If you're not judging what happens, then you're trusting what others are doing, what you're playing, and trusting what you're playing.And it can lead you to other ideas, to something maybe you hadn't expressed before.

It pulled me like a magnet, jazz did, because it was a way that I could express myself.

Jazz has been the voice of freedom for so many countries over the past half century.

Technology has developed to a whole other level and theres the scientist part of me that loves that stuff.

Jazz is a music that is open enough to borrow from any other form of music, and has the strength to influence any other form of music.