Don't play everything (or every time); let some things go by... What you don't play can be more important than what you do.

I compose my pieces with a formula that I created myself.

Sometimes it's to your advantage for people to think you're crazy

I always believed in being myself.

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.

I can shoot pool, and I can play ping-pong. I'm pretty good at those games.

A genius is the one most like himself.