Who creates a thing is not as important as what the thing is. Who created baseball? Who created basketball? Who created the space program? Who created - we could go on and on. We could argue about who created something. We all are participants in it.

I'm just lucky to have the type of friends and musicians and people dedicated to my music that I do.

Many of our greatest musicians abandoned all of their aesthetic objectives to try to become pertinent. And, at the end of the day, they never became pop stars. I counter stated that very strongly, and I continue to do that.

We no longer want to be a melting pot, because we don't understand what is already melted.

I have friends who will critique me much harder than any review.

The only justification for looking down on anyone is that you're going to stop and pick them up.

Trumpet players see each other, and it's like we're getting ready to square off or get into a fight or something.