The arts shows that you're civilized, and it makes life sweet. So you can exist and you can buy more things and you can be more - we're dealing with a form of commercialism that obscures a prior relationship to quality, and it's a national problem.

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.

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

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

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

New Orleans - the real New Orleans - is the soul of the country.

For me as a person who's in the arts and as someone who understands the magnitude of our contributions and the price that was paid to contribute to that, that we just have not gotten that together. I will do all that I can to get in front of our kids, to try to teach them, but at a certain point the people have to want it and come towards it.