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

Most guys at Berklee are going to wind up truck drivers.

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.

It's a shame that jazz is now being turned into dried fruit. It's becoming quantized, diced and defined. It's becoming an idiom. To me if it's anything, jazz is a verb ? it's more like a process than it is a thing.

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

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

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