Commercialism that has absolutely no relationship to quality whatsoever, only quantitative assessment of a thing.

Ethics are more important than laws. Which means that the exact note is less important than the feeling of the note.

The bandstand is a sacred place.

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

When I first came to New York everybody on the scene would treat me like I could play but I couldn't.

The black hole in democracy is integrity. The great unspoken is integrity. When integrity is not first and foremost, it's quite palpable but not visible. It's always there. Jazz highlights it because musicians and jazz always represented a high level of integrity.

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