It must be a hellish thing to know what's possible in music, to be hearing things all the time and not have an appropriate outlet for them.

You don't know what bravery is until you overcome fear.

There's a spiritual complement to any attempt at transposing a commitment to humanity through music or art.

At a certain point, the graduate school thing didn't work out, and that meant I was liberated.

Man, I just feel so fortunate to be a jazz musician at all. I have a hard time thinking of it any other way. It's such a fulfilling vocation. I love it.

Music is a physical expression that has a physical impact upon the listener. Sound travels in waves through the air. This is not abstract. This is scientific fact. And it makes physical contact with the eardrum... and with the heart... and with the rest of the body.