I believe in professionalism, but playing is not like a job. You have to be grateful to have the opportunity to play.

We always hear about the rights of democracy, but the major responsibility of it is participation.

When I was 12, I began listening to John Coltrane and I developed a love for jazz, which I still have more and more each year.

Sustained intensity equals ecstacy.

We learn a language through its song, and even if you don't have music you have the song of people you love's voice, and you'll notice that song in their voice.

No particular music makes me feel nostalgic. If it's great, it just keeps me in the present moment. That level of music is like a classic story, like the Iliad-something so perfect it can never be old.

Jazz is democracy in music.