I think we had a Ben Webster/Gerry Mulligan record... that might have been it. We only had a few records in the house.

I think [Phil Wood] didn't suffer fools gladly, but he loved supporting young people that loved the music.

When you fuel up with purpose you find the excitement in the mundane, the passion in the everyday, the extraordinary in the ordinary.

One negative person can create a miserable office environment for everyone else.

When I was a kid, I always saw these pictures of a man called Bob Gordon with a baritone saxophone, who I understood was my father. Turns out he wasn't. He was my mother's first husband.

When I heard Charlie Parker the first time on a record, it had seemed like an old, scratchy kind of record and I didn't get it.

The best thing you can do is just go and have fun with [competition].