Everybody in all countries tries to play jazz.

It's always night, or we wouldn't need light.

I don't know where jazz is going. Maybe it's going to hell. You can't make anything go anywhere. It just happens.

Jazz is my adventure. I'm after new chords, new ways of syncopating, new figures, new runs. How to use notes differently. That's it. Just using notes differently.

We have two kids, my wife and myself.

When I was a kid, some of the guys would try to get me to hate white people for what they've been doing to Negroes, and for a while I tried real hard. But every time I got to hating them, some white guy would come along and mess the whole thing up.

I never though much about race.