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

Most guys at Berklee are going to wind up truck drivers.

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

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

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

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

The more I can learn about music, the more I learn about other things.