It's a shame that jazz is now being turned into dried fruit. It's becoming quantized, diced and defined. It's becoming an idiom. To me if it's anything, jazz is a verb ? it's more like a process than it is a thing.

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

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

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.

I think I represent a more left-wing view of what jazz is

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

To me, there are lots of different stories to tell and you usually find the best way to tell the one you are telling once you are in it.