Purpose is the ultimate fuel for our journey through life. When we drive with purpose we don't get tired or bored and our engines don't burn out.

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

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.

The first CD I had, that I think had had any redeeming qualities to it, I did when I was 25 with a relatively small label called Chiarascuro.

There are a lot of different ways you can be a part of this music and love it and make a contribution that's personal to you.

I don't want my children to be what I want them to be. I want them to become everything God created them to be.