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.

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.

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

The Internet opens up a whole new range of possibilities in a wide range of areas.

I'm aware that a lot of what is happening in jazz has not had a very dynamic change in a long time.

Forget about trying to compete with someone else. Create your own pathway. Create your own new vision.

Jazz is about being in the moment.