What is music anyway? It's a form of communication, and that's why I play the kind of music that I think - that I hope - can communicate with people.

I think everybody has to kind of decide what the word 'jazz' means to them, and that's fine.

Just figure out what you think jazz is, and then if it fits into that category, it's jazz, and if it doesn't, it isn't. It's no big deal.

Maybe I'm a dreamer, but I think the ordinary guy has just as much right to say 'This is a good song' as somebody who is in the music business.