The best thing is to find something you really love to do and enjoy that process for the rest of your life.

Sometimes I feel like a one man crusade against the devaluation of music in America and culture in the arts.

You have to study composition to understand that things can be done backwards and forwards and upside down, inverted, but it's mainly just an inner valid intuitive thing. Where do you want to go? Ok this is busy, or this needs some space, or this is too much space so now I want to put more notes in there or something. It's all about contrast. High, low. Fast, slow, thick or thin or what have you. And it's the same with improvisation.

I'm not going to limit myself in ways to compose or how I should record. You just do what you can with what you've got at the moment.

We have a society that wants somebody to come out of college with a degree that will make them a slave for whatever discipline they're in.

It's very difficult to make a living in music these days. All it takes is somebody paying.

In the liner notes, music is fine by itself. It doesn't need any explanation.