Don't wish for someone else to do later what you can do now.

And my identity...I never really wondered about it because, unfortunately, I sounded like myself. People be saying I sound like Miles or Clifford Brown.

I got my first trumpet when I was six years old, from Al Hirt. My father was playing in Al Hirt's band at that time.

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

The soul gives us resilience - an essential quality since we constantly have to rebound from hardship.

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.

I always like to play very contemporary concepts of swing right next to New Orleans music because it highlights continuum.