You just keep playing. If someone special comes along and organizes it in a new way, then you'll have another approach and everybody will jump on it to try to learn.

I have been able to get a small audience. It's not the huge audience, but it's enough to make it possible to play. I appreciate that.

Labels don't mean anything to me. I'm trying to play as passionately as I'm able to. If they want to call that cool, that's fine. Just spell the name right, is the formula.

Sound is the first thing that we tune into.

Benny Goodman was one of the big influences as a clarinet player. That's why I wanted the clarinet.

I always felt as a horn player, a jam session wasn't satisfying enough for me. I should have been a rhythm section player, actually.

As long as there are people trying to play music in a sincere way, there will be Jazz.