Sometimes I wish I could walk up to my music as if for the first time, as if I had never heard it before. Being so inescapably a part of it, I'll never know what the listener gets, what the listener feels, and that's too bad.

Working with Monk is like falling down a dark elevator shaft.

I'd like to point out to people the divine in a musical language that transcends words. I want to speak to their souls.

I think I know what it is but don't ask me to play it

I'm into scales right now.

Invest yourself in everything you do. There's fun in being serious.

My music is the spiritual expression of what I am: my faith, my knowledge, my being.