I understood that if I wanted to work, the saxophone was the main instrument. The clarinet was what we call a double.

That's kind of my goal: to build a new row of meaningful tones.

I listen to classical music very much. There's a lot of jazz that I don't enjoy listening to.

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.

I understood that if I wanted to work, the saxophone was the main instrument. The clarinet was what we call a double.

I just completed a tour in Europe. I played every night. This requires traveling some days for six hours in a van or a train or a car. After six weeks of that, I checked into the hotel and just fell apart.

We all learn from each other, and I never really hung out with guys in that way, so I missed out.