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

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

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

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

Music is one big thing to me.

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.

Whatever my recorded output is, it's a reflection of a general love of music.