A good quartet is like a good conversation among friends interacting to each other's ideas.

I compulsively reach for perfection in music, often at the expense of everything else in my life.

You know, when I'm playing, I think of myself in front of the Wailing Wall with a saxophone in my hands, and I'm davening, I'm really telling it to the Wall.

I've done some dastardly things but what can I do except make amends and apologize?

It’s like a language. You learn the alphabet, which are the scales. You learn sentences, which are the chords. And then you talk extemporaneously with the horn. It’s a wonderful thing to speak extemporaneously, which is something I’ve never gotten the hang of. But musically I love to talk just off the top of my head. And that’s what jazz music is all about.

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

I learn something new every day.