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

Just because people play songs with great technique doesn't mean the records are better.

I approach everything in my life the same way; if it feels right, I know it.

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.

I don't play the traditional Charlie Parker songs. But I do improvise and I do create with my instrument, and that to me is jazz. But there are people who use the word 'jazz' only in a traditional sense, and they would be offended by that, and that's fine.

I just started as a part of the public school music program. I took lessons at the school every Friday and was a part of the school band. I was just a normal kid taking instrumental lessons at school, nothing special.

If I even lose my glasses or make a mistake. I become really disappointed in myself.