Jazz shouldn't have any mandates. Jazz is not supposed to be something that's required to sound like jazz. For me, the word 'jazz' means, 'I dare you.'

Your humanity is your instrument.

Music is interior decoration.

I always think of music as interior decoration. So, if you have all kinds of music, you are fully decorated!

You know the actor John Garfield? In one movie he walked up to this train station, the ticket booth, and the guy says, 'Yes, where are you going?' And he says, 'I want a ticket to nowhere.' I thought: that's it. The freedom to do that. I want a ticket to nowhere.

A series of vibrations. What does it matter, the source of the catalyst?

Clouds float in the same pattern only once.