I Think Risk-taking Is A Great Adventure.

One Of The Greatest Experiences I Ever Had Was Listening To A Conversation With Joni Mitchell And Wayne Shorter. Just To Hear Them Talking, My Mouth Was Open. They Understand Each Other Perfectly, And They Make These Leaps And Jumps Because They Don't Have To Explain Anything.

I Think There's A Great Beauty To Having Problems. That's One Of The Ways We Learn.

When You Struggle To Reach For Something You Don't Know, That's Where Most Of The Interesting Stuff Is.

Clare Fischer Was A Major Influence On My Harmonic Concept. He And Bill Evans, And Ravel And Gil Evans, Finally. You Know, That's Where It Really Came From. Almost All Of The Harmony That I Play Can Be Traced To One Of Those Four People And Whoever Their Influences Were.

In The Past, There's Always Been One Leader That Has Led The Pack To Development Of The Music.