Bill Evans is a real serious jazz pianist who, in my book, crossed over boundaries in terms of color. He used the piano as his canvas.

Once you're successful with a certain kind of music, it's hard not to have faith in it as a means to stay successful.

As musicians, and as people who sell material for people to hear and absorb, it's important that we use that voice wisely.

I didn't know how well my first album had done; it was enough to get me to do the second album, which was a continuation of the music I'd worked on and perfected.

There's a river somewhere that flows through the lives of everyone.

Getting married is easy. Staying married is more difficult. Staying happily married for a lifetime is among the fine arts.

My hope is that out of all the anger and seeming hostility that we hear in some of today's music will come some sort of coalition that will become politically involved.