I think you have to be completely merciless with yourself.

I believe that a truly valuable artist must be an artist who realizes the impossibility of his task -and then continues to do it.

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

Musicians are always gigging and never have a chance to stop for a minute.

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

I can't even tolerate my own playing on electric keyboards. It's not about the musical ideas - the sound itself is toxic. It's like eating plastic broccoli.

I'm my own most merciless critic onstage.