We looked up to our father. He still is much greater than us.

There was one thing Beethoven didn't do. When one of his string quartets was played, you can believe the second violin wasn't improvising.

Even in these times, there are still neighbors that will turn their backs on neighbors.

If you looked around, you'd be glad you couldn't see.

And that's the soulful thing about playing: you offer something to somebody. You don't know if they'll like it, but you offer it.

For Black people, we're one of the only groups of people that for some reason to express love of yourself, in some ways, is misconstrued as a dislike for someone else.

I'll write down and catalogue all the different devices that are Americana to me, and I try to have a historic depth and breadth and also the things that we do in our time, the type of vamps and chants, things that are available to us.