Music is one big thing to me.

1962 to 1965, where suddenly the guitar became this icon of youth culture all over the world, thanks mostly to the Beatles. Add to that, that I saw A Hard Day's Night 12 or 13 times, and that the guitar was the one instrument that my parents absolutely refused to let in the house. So you add it up and see that irresistible forces led me to the guitar.

My first relationship to any kind of musical situation is as a listener.

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

If jazz has to be termed as a wave, then music is a sea, but if the reflectors in the water is the chord.

Learning to play is mostly about learning to hear, and learning to really listen deeply to sound in a musical way is a lifetime's worth of work.

I think jazz is actually quite unforgiving in its disdain for nostalgia. It demands creativity and change at its highest level.