I had a really nice association with Richie DeRosa, a great musician, a great drummer and composer and arranger. And I had a number of classes with him.

Definitely I had a lot of times where I was really hard on myself. Really frustrated. But I never felt like I had someplace else to go. Just had to stay here and deal with this.

Thoughts are magnetic. What we think about we attract.

I've been thankful to work with some wonderful people and sort of combine forces with some folks that... like in recent years, working with Alan Ferber or his brother Mark who's a wonderful drummer.

[Phil Wood] knew about wine. He knew about food. He knew about art. He knew about classical music. He was interested in things.

So often the difference between success and failure is belief. Belief leads to action and execution.

I didn't always have time to practice as much as I wanted to do, that was a real problem for me in high school and college.