I think jazz is actually quite unforgiving in its disdain for nostalgia. It demands creativity and change at its highest level.

It's more about conception and touch and spirit and soul than whether my hardware was in place.

I don't know if I would qualify as mainstream. I think I have managed to function pretty successfully on the fringes of the music world and have been able to play exactly what I have wanted the way I have wanted.

I realized that equipment really had little to do with why I sound like the way I sound.

I don’t worry too much about the fundamentalist principles that are in almost any discussion about Jazz.

I was able to work with the best musicians in Kansas City starting when I was really young.

I love playing and working on music. It is something that I feel really lucky to be able to spend my life doing. And I don’t sleep much!

I don’t know if I would qualify as mainstream. I think I have managed to function pretty successfully on the fringes of the music world and have been able to play exactly what I have wanted the way I have wanted.

I try to be prepared for the moment, through understanding, and being warmed up, knowing all about chords and scales, so I don’t even have to think and I can get right to what it is I want to say.

Whatever my recorded output is, it’s a reflection of a general love of music.