I'm into scales right now.

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

All a musician can do is to get closer to the source.

God breathes through us so completely...So gently we hardly feel it...yet it is our everything.

Sometimes I wish I could walk up to my music for the first time, as if I had never heard it before.

Working with Monk brought me close to a musical architect of the highest order. I felt I learned from him in every way--through the senses, theoretically, technically. I would talk to Monk about musical problems, and he would sit at the piano and show me the answers just by playing them. I could watch him play and find out the things I wanted to know. Also, I could see a lot of things that I didn't know about at all.

Jazz is a word they use to sell our music, but to me that word does not exist.