I'm not a rock singer and I don't want to be a rock singer. I'm not interested. It doesn't seem to get across.

You can put out an album and it could be totally out of the window as far as what you want to do performance-wise.

If you never hear from me that just means I would rather not.

[Jazz musicians] couldn't cut rock. I had to be more limited and specific about what I was doing.

It's like something happened to you that caused you to do what you do...you heard something somewhere, you felt something about this music that was definitely part of your own vision. That's what the whole thing is like.

Memories, how they linger in the twilight and in the wee small hours sometimes just before dawn.

That's what it is-it's jazz. It's just jazz. That's what the whole thing is about to me. It's about what's happening right now in this context. This conversation is jazz to a certain extent. It's improvisation. What appeals to me about music is the improvization. That's what I don't like about the media-they're not living it.