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.

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

Most jazz players work out their solos, at least to the extent that they have a very specific vocabulary.

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

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

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.

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.