When I think of that dear rugged cross where the dear Saviour gave his all... When I feel like I'm on my last go round, see me through.

[The music is about ] for the purpose of getting people to an excitement level. They feel something, they feel emotions. They're going to go home after that concert and remember it.Maybe they got something out of the experience rather than intellectualizing about what songs mean which is the whole head trip.

The thing about albums is just coming up with new material. I just got tired of that syndrome of putting out an album and then some reviewer claims that this song or that song has something to do with x y or z.

It will make you feel good, and it will make you feel whole, when the spirit moves you and it fills you through and through.

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.

When I started you were more in touch with the people you were playing to. There wasn't the distance or the separation that there is now.

There aren't any labels - all jazz means is improvization and you can never play a tune the same way twice. So jazz spills over into everything.