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

Jazz demands that you bring to it things that are valuable to you, that are personal to you.

Im always trying to find connections between things. That art is the juxtaposition of a lot of things that seem unrelated but add up to something recognizable.

Sometimes I try to lose my identity, and I can't get rid of it!

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.

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