The clarinet has always been my baby. I just didn't know that for a while.

Clarinet is an incredible instrument. It's a great, expressive instrument.

The clarinet chose me more than I chose the clarinet.

I'm working really hard to get the clarinet out of that hole, that Benny Goodman thing.

Some old people, they remember that they used to play clarinet, and they remember the squeaks of the clarinet. But I don't play like that.

When I play the clarinet, I am 100 percent myself. It is as if it is part of my body. I can play whatever I think. Let me just read a melody and make it as sweet as I can.