You can't really tell what the audience wants but you can tell what will keep everybody's attention in the same place.

All bad jazz sounds like Woody Woodpecker.

The first music I was exposed to was Stravinsky and I loved it but I don't remember it.

I have always thought of myself as a performer first and way down the line as a recording artist.

I had been playing single note instruments and I wanted to hear a guitar played as a piano.

It's true that the more you put in the more you get out and that has to be there I think, If you aren't really hooked on your instrument this job would be a hell on earth but if you are, it's the best.

I would say that if you don't feel like talking to the crowd something is wrong and if you force yourself to talk to them things will happen and to that extent things aren't choreographed.