I'm my own most merciless critic onstage.

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.

Jazz is one of the least learnable art forms.

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.

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.

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