When I'm at home I practice everyday.

If you can get a twelve year-old kid to go listen to Thelonius Monk, what more do you want? Do you want a big pile of cash, too? That's a home run for me.

If you put the right things out there the right things will happen.

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

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

I take my craft very seriously.

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.