I'm never in my life going to do a record that's a tribute to myself. I don't need it.

Billy Strayhorn wrote Multicolored Blue. Billy to me is the boss of the arrangers.

Everybody has their idiosyncrasies.

My brother died of cancer two years ago (1998), renal cell carcinoma. He was my only real brother and I didn't know what to do. I'd never been so desperate in my life.

Editing while you're writing is like strangling the baby in the crib.

I'm just a musician and a record producer.

There’s nothing in the world worse than having an opportunity that you’re not prepared for. Good luck usually follows the collision of opportunity and preparation - it’s a result of that collision. You’ve got to be prepared. So, make your mistakes now and make them quickly. If you’ve made the mistakes, you know what to expect the next time. That’s how you become valuable.