Finally, I was no longer a student and was making music for myself.

It's important to let each artist do what makes him or her feel comfortable. Success should be a by-product of that.

Being a purely instrumental album, it makes a musical statement, not a religious one, and I hope that people can feel the emotion of the great melodies, even without the words.

I think everybody has to kind of decide what the word 'jazz' means to them, and that's fine.

I practice my saxophone three hours a day. I'm not saying I'm particularly special, but if you do something three hours a day for forty years, you get pretty good at it.

Maybe I'm a dreamer, but I think the ordinary guy has just as much right to say 'This is a good song' as somebody who is in the music business.

When I play live, I feel how the audience is going and follow and lead at the same time.