Play difficult and interesting things. If you play boring things, you risk losing your appetite. Saxophone can be tedious with too much of the same.

It's very important to go through periods where you sound just rotten and you know it, and you have to persevere or give up.

Risk is at the heart of jazz. Every note we play is a risk.

If you listen to Louis Armstrong from 1929, you will never hear anything better than that really, and you will never hear anything more free than that.

If you have music you want to play that no one asks you to play, you have to go out and find where you can play it. It's called do or die.

When I found the music of Monk I finally found music that fit that horn. Every one of his tunes fit it perfectly.

It starts with a single sound. If there's something in that sound, then it's worth continuing.