If you are complaining you can't be thinking about or creating what you do want.
I think that's important to remember - That we're blessed to even be able to attempt to do this [music].
I was really falling in love with jazz and dedicating myself in that direction.
[Winning the Thelonious Monk International Saxophone Competition]definitely opened some doors.
Things dribbled in in dribs and drabs through my 20s. But it was a struggle.
I had pestered [Phil Wood] for a long time. He finally agreed to do it. And I was excited and nervous and he couldn't have been nicer or more supportive from the minute I got to his house.