When I play live, I feel how the audience is going and follow and lead at the same time.
Finally, I was no longer a student and was making music for myself.
I think everybody has to kind of decide what the word 'jazz' means to them, and that's fine.
I really create everything I do from the heart.
Well, Grover Washington was my main influence and when I went to college, I started listening to more of the jazz masters like Sonny Rollins, Cannonball Adderley, and John Coltrane.
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.