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.

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

The first thing I learned was the theme from Peter Gunn.

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

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

I was deep in the zone of practicing almost constantly

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