More and more as time has gone on, I realize that playing is really more about listening than it is about playing.

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!

I hate the way chorus boxes sound

Music is what you notice when it's no longer in your presence.

More and more as time has gone on, I realize that playing is really more about listening than it is about playing.

I don't know if I would qualify as mainstream. I think I have managed to function pretty successfully on the fringes of the music world and have been able to play exactly what I have wanted the way I have wanted

Somehow trumpet is the reference point for me it was actually my first instrument.