When I was in my early teens, I remember coming to the conclusion that your life never ends.

One thing I like about jazz is that it emphasized doing things differently from what other people were doing.

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

Since time is a continuum, the moment is always different, so the music is always different.

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.

Being vulnerable is allowing yourself to trust. That's hard for a lot of people to do. They feel a lot more secure if they kind of put walls around themselves. Then they don't have to trust anybody but themselves. But to allow you to trust not only yourself but trust others means - is what's required to be vulnerable, and to have that kind of trust takes courage.

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