For me Brazilian music is the perfect mix of melody and rhythm. It just bubbles rhythmically. If I had to pick just one music style to play if would be Brazilian.

You don't have to live the blues to play the blues.

To most jazz critics I was basically Kenny G.

Think about it: Look at the strides of awareness and treatment and tests that women have had with breast cancer, that the gay community has had with AIDS, because they're active and they talk about it.

Being selfish to me means that you have to look out for yourself and you don't have to sacrifice.

As much as I think John Coltrane belongs on the list, I think without Coleman Hawkins and Lester Young, both of whom defined improvising on the tenor sax, there would not have been the evolution of the craft by John Coltrane.

The music we're playing now is based on my heritage, which is Russian, Romanian and Hungarian.