I think jazz is actually quite unforgiving in its disdain for nostalgia. It demands creativity and change at its highest level.

I try to be prepared for the moment, through understanding, and being warmed up, knowing all about chords and scales, so I don't even have to think and I can get right to what it is I want to say.

Smokin' at the Half Note is the absolute greatest jazz-guitar album ever made. It is also the record that taught me how to play.

Sometimes I try to lose my identity, and I can't get rid of it!

I was deep in the zone of practicing almost constantly

Whatever my recorded output is, it's a reflection of a general love of music.

My first relationship to any kind of musical situation is as a listener.