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.

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

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 realized that improvisers should probably always have time off. But musicians are always gigging and never have a chance to stop for a minute - unless something drastic occurs.

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.