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.

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.

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.

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

I feel really good in the teacher role.

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

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.