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

Letting people share their gifts and strengths is real love.

Everyone wants to do what the great ones do; but very few are willing to do what they did to become great

When you believe, the impossible becomes possible. What you believe will become what is true. Your optimism today will determine your level of success tomorrow. Don’t look at your challenges; look up and look out into the future. Don’t focus on your circumstances. Focus on the right beliefs that will help you build your success.

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.

I had made a couple of records in Europe. One as a leader, and one as a sideman before that. It was what it was. I started to work with Maria Schneider around that period and some other people, I started to get called to sub at the Vanguard in my mid-20s.

I was also sitting in from the middle of senior year of high school at Sweet Basil, it was a great club in New York.