I am a romantic, I admit it.

Wynton Marsalis is jazzy the same way someone who drives a BMW is sporty.

I grew up with the piano. I learned its language as I learned to speak.

I've never heard anything Wynton [Marsalis] played sound like it meant anything at all. Wynton has no voice and no presence. His music sounds like a talented high-school trumpet player to me... he's jazzy the same way someone who drives a BMW is sporty.

I am a romantic, I admit it.

If I'm not a jazz player all the time, I've at least been cued in to what I do by jazz.

If you already have a piece of music ingrained in your body, why would you not play it?