Positivity is like a boomerang. The more we put it out there, the more it comes back to us.

We had been thrown out of a couple of places that we had lived in when I was a kid and all the family photos and records and toys were long since gone. But I think somebody had given us a couple of records.

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

I never really had a classical saxophone set-up. I just had a middle of the road set up.

The secret to life and the greatest success strategy of all is to love all of it and fear none of it.

Families that I lived with a little bit in junior high and quite a bit in high school and college. Just to have a safe, sane space with food and things like that. That's what I needed. And people were really kind and really generous. So I think the world kind of opened up my first years of performing arts, studying classical saxophone with Caesar DiMauro.

You are not a true success unless you are helping others be successful.