You don't rehearse jazz to death to get the camera angles.

Hearing myself so much all the time, I don't think I sound that special all the time because it's me.

I appreciate men like Ben Webster and Coleman Hawkins very much.

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.

The value of jazz still has to be clarified. People involve themselves with its superficialities without digging for its soul.

You don't rehearse jazz to death to get the camera angles.

My life is music, and in some vague, mysterious and subconscious way, I have always been driven by a taut inner spring which has propelled me to almost compulsively reach for perfection in music, often - in fact, mostly - at the expense of everything else in my life.