If a person plays dissonance long enough, it will sound like consonance. It's a language that was alien and then it's less and less alien as it continues to live.

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

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

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

We accept so many things that come through the media; we get used to them, however vigilant we are. But for any creative art, you have to remain 110% conscious, and in a world that's losing consciousness, that's getting harder.

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 am a romantic, I admit it.