I love playing and working on music. It is something that I feel really lucky to be able to spend my life doing. And I don't sleep much!

Learning to play is mostly about learning to hear, and learning to really listen deeply to sound in a musical way is a lifetime's worth of work.

People sometimes say it takes a long time to become a Jazz fan, but for me it took about five seconds.

And if I ever DO see [Kenny G] anywhere, at any function - he WILL get a piece of my mind, and maybe a guitar wrapped around his head.

I think that the melodic piece of the puzzle in music is the most esoteric and difficult to quantify.

Jazz is an idea that is more powerful than the details of its history.

Avant-garde, jazz, pop, classical, country and western, rock, free, straight-ahead, etc. are ultimately meaningless terms in the face of the music being discussed at best - at worst, those terms often serve as code words for what is in fact a cultural / political discussion more than a musical one.