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.

I'm my own most merciless critic onstage.

One thing you learn: if you want to reveal yourself, you also have to know where to stop.

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

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

Music always turns into music. As soon as I play a key, push a key down, there's no theory any more. When I go and I hear a sound on the keyboard, all theories go out the window.

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