You've got to have room to run, but it's a whole offensive unit thing, ... We have to be determined to make up our mind that we're going to get done.

Not really, I've been here too long.

I don't even listen to it. I don't get involved in it,

I like people not being able to be pigeon-holed.

The iconoclastic mode, that specific mode of language, there is an element of it that it is punk - that is confrontational. That's just a part of the language of jazz - at a certain point.

My influences are, number one, hand to Jesus, Halle Berry. I think that she's so brilliant, and I love everything that she does, even 'Catwoman.'