I practiced saxophone eight hours a day for the first two years I played.

I cannot play a lie. I have to believe in what I play or it won't come out.

Records used to be documents, but now record companies want product.

When I'm alcohol-free now and even to see the world around me, I appreciate it, but I never truly enjoy too much of it maybe because I feel like I'm a working musician. There are some joyous moments, but I will not think a joyous moment.

If you like an instrument that sings, play the saxophone. At its best it's like the human voice.

I'm a recovered alcoholic. I don't do anything anymore, but those things, those things take away ... You're a different personality completely when you take those. For those who are really chemically dependent on anything, it's not you.

I learn something new every day - to edit, to take out all the extraneous matter and stress form, logic, and content. I try to play beautiful music.