A chord is just the name of a sound.

I always tell my students when you're going to be a jazz musician the first thing you've got to do is be a professional musician, and that means you have to feed yourself with the instrument.

They're not just interested in one sort of music any more.

You would think that anyone on a major label would be doing something, but when you speak of major label that means something to maybe a big pop star that might be getting some sort of benefit from the major. But we still don't get anything.

We expect the listener to have, like, a movie going on when they hear us. That's what it's all about for us.

These people are interested in a wide variety of music, and that's what we're into.

It's just about really being sensitive, and trying to play a music that is about music.