The first jazz musician was a trumpeter, Buddy Bolden, and the last will be a trumpeter, the archangel Gabriel.

The nerves are a problem on trumpet, because when you mess up everyone can hear it. Just remember most people are too polite to say anything about it. That should calm your nerves.

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

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

Jazz is not the kind of music you are going to learn to play in three or four years or that you can just get because you have some talent for music.

Nothing else will ever capture the democratic process in sound as perfectly as Jazz.

My schedule is always tight. But I like to have the pressure of having to finish doing something; it gives me an added edge.