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

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 was able to work with the best musicians in Kansas City starting when I was really young

I don't worry too much about the fundamentalist principles that are in almost any discussion about Jazz.

I was deep in the zone of practicing almost constantly

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

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