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.

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 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 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.

Music is one big thing to me.

Jazz is not something that can be defined through blunt instruments. It is much more poetic than that.

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