I am a romantic, I admit it.

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.

Silence is the potential from which music can arise.

The way I think about the practicing, it is my undercover work.

Music always turns into music. As soon as I play a key, push a key down, there's no theory any more. When I go and I hear a sound on the keyboard, all theories go out the window.

Ideally, I'd like to be the eternal novice, for then only the surprises would be endless.

When you're up against an electric band like that, it's like you're on two separate planets.