Its more about conception and touch and spirit and soul than whether my hardware was in place.

There's more bad music in jazz than any other form. Maybe that's because the audience doesn't really know what's happening.

...to me if it's anything, jazz is a verb-it's more like a process than it is a thing.

I was able to work with the best musicians in Kansas City starting when I was really young

There has to be a real strong reason to do something with someone for me.

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

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.