I am about the arrangements and the layers of depth in the music.

That's the jazz that I like - the stuff that has a soothing effect.

I can see more naturalness in basic blues, basic R & B, basic rock 'n' roll.

I was all caught up with identifying with certain things. They just weren't very stimulating things.

Sartre said that hell is other people, I believe that most of them are

Somebody's going to hear a song that will key in a nerve or something in their experience that represents their own vision. And the next person is going to see it completely different. So even what it means to me is probably irrelevant. It's totally irrelevant. What matters is what it means to each person listening to it.

I like [George] Benson because I just like it. I like that kind of style. I don't like the broken up kind of style. I don't like where you play for 16 bars and then break it up into what somebody's version of what birds twittering sounds like, or what the sound of the city is, or what New York sounds like.