The way I think about the practicing, it is my undercover work.

When you're on stage you have a very strange knowledge of what the audience is. It isn't exactly a sound - it's a hum, like the streets.

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.

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.

If music is sound & came from silence, then silence is potentially greater than sound.

I'm not talking ideas, or even presentation. It's like in politics: You have to sell something to become an electric player - like your skin or your heart.