Your own music comes out of your head and emotions, but it's not etched in your system.

Creativity is what makes humanity move. We were created to participate.

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.

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'm my own most merciless critic onstage.

Jazz is one of the least learnable art forms.

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