I was in choir [at school].

The only person who can limit your possibilities is you.

I think what frustrated me more than anything else in my formative years was that I just had to work. I had to have a job. Like twenty to thirty hours a week, a lot of times in high school and college. And that was hard.

Ernie Hayes, Jimmy Lewis, and either Belton Evans or Khalil Mahdi on drums [were in Sweet Basil]. All those guys really took care of me.

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

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.

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