I think you have to be completely merciless with yourself.

I cannot say what I think is right about Music. I only know the rightness of it.

It is the individual voice, present to itself, that needs to be heard. We need to hear the process of the musician working on himself. We don't need to hear who is more clever with synthesizers. Our cleverness has created the world we live in, which in many ways, we're sorry about.

Once we're inside a tune, we can do anything with it.

I realized that improvisers should probably always have time off. But musicians are always gigging and never have a chance to stop for a minute - unless something drastic occurs.

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.