Music is interior decoration.

You're like the girl who left her shadow in the drawer, but when she went to get it, it wasn't there.

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.'

I'm learning more about life when I'm playing too, and writing music. I'm learning more about life, the connection.

If all you have is music, then you don't have music

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.

Composing is improvisation slowed down.