If you plan on continuing a tradition, it might be a good idea to find out just what tradition it is that you intend to continue.

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.

Listening is the key to everything good in music.

I think that the melodic piece of the puzzle in music is the most esoteric and difficult to quantify.

The main thing in my life...is that I really need to go home and practice.

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 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