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.

There's a lot of good people out here that want to help you grow and to help the music to continue to grow and evolve and go find those folks and be around them and carry it on... carrying the tradition on in the way with what it is that you have to offer. Find some good people in the music that will believe in you and they'll help you do that.

You hear about the struggles with substances and all that, but [Phil Wood] was a really a great guy. This was a great man.

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.

Anyone who attempts to build great things will face challenges.

I was studying with Joe Allard, which was great, as a saxophone student. Being able to study with Joe Allard was an incredible experience.

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.