The only person who can limit your possibilities is you.

If you think your best days are behind you, they are. If you think your best days are ahead of you, they are.

The first jazz cruise that I was on was '91. I played with Maria Schneider and John Fedchock's band. Got to meet some amazing people that week.

[Charles McPherson] was kind enough to go to a record gig of mine where we recorded a song of his.

I never got discouraged for long, but we all got our butts kicked musically.

I didn't have time to deal with practicing in a way that I would have liked to. I wish I could have just said, "I've got four to five hours every day that I'm going to go deal with music." I just didn't' have that. I missed a lot of lessons, but I think that maybe was frustrating to me in a big picture sense of, I need the time and energy to put into my instrument.

Optimism is a competitive advantage.