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

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

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

Jazz is one of the least learnable art forms.

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