Everything I Have Now Is So Real,

I Watch My Contemporaries, And They Love To Live In The Studio And I Don't. I Have A Life. I Treat It As A 9-to-5. I Try To Create Something New Every Day, And Then I Get On With My Life.

Jazz Is All About Improvisation And It's About The Moment In Time, Doing It This Way Now, And You'll Never Do It This Way Twice. I've Studied The Masters. Why Would I Want To Play Ball After The Guys Who Sit On A Bench? I Want To Play Like Michael Jordan.

For Me Able To Do The Records I Want To Do And Not Have To Worry About This Producer Or That Producer Or That Trend, I'm Not Really Interested In That.

People Don't Like When You Point Out To Them And Remind Them That They're Not Very Smart.

You'd Hear Willie Nelson, Then Earth, Wind & Fire, Then Chicago, Then Billy Joel On The Same Radio Station. Nowadays, Everything Is Compartmentalized.