Jazz is one of the least learnable art forms.

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

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

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.

Jazz is one of the least learnable art forms.

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

I grew up with the piano. I learned its language as I learned to speak.