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.

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

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

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

You know, when people look at a tree, they look at the leaves; they don't look at the spaces between the leaves. They're focused on the tree. I think there's an awareness of spaces or it wouldn't look like a tree to them.