My brother was always in bands and on the road when I was a kid and he was my inspiration. He never made it with a big band, in fact he never made a record. Here he is fifty-something years old.

I think that the jazzy approach that I have is based on the way that I hear music and in the way I play a supporting role to the other people in the band.

You start to look at it with a deeper respect and I think that deeper respect for what you do builds more self-respect.

My brother and I had a real love-hate relationship with my success. There was some bitterness there that I didn't understand until recently, but I told him that if I ever did a record I wanted him to play on it.

The thing I try to do the most is to play in terms of the song and play in terms of what I'm hearing.

Music is always going to be only as sophisticated as the culture that consumes it.

No one writes about the emotional things you go through.