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.

You know when I was younger I used to look at Downbeat Magazine and I figured anybody in Downbeat must be making a living.

Many times you never know what's going to happen. You'll play songs that you never thought you were going to play.

We're just beginning to learn the importance of music in our society.

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.

What I've been trying to do for years is to get the music played on a station other than jazz stations, you know, to expand the audience.

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