If I Would Not Be Able To

I'm A True Believer That Unless You're Prince Or Stevie Wonder - And Even Prince Is Showing That He Needs Help - Not Everybody Can Produce Themselves. I'm Definitely Not That Person.

I Stopped Beating Up On Myself. I Stopped Asking Myself Why I Didn't Sell This Number Of Records, Why I Don't Have Corporate Sponsorship. I Just Don't Buy Into Any Of That Anymore.

My Father Was A Jazz Tenor Sax Player. He Played In A Lot Of Big Bands. So I Had That Sound Around Me All The Time. The First Record That Really Caught My Ear Was Clifford Brown's 'brownie Eyes.' I Grew Up Listening To John Coltrane And Illinois Jacquet. This Is Where I Come From... I Love Improvisational Music.

We're All Just Bags Of Bones And Muscle And Hormones; I'll Never Understand What Makes Our Minds Do The Things We Do. It's Like That Statue Of The Monkey Holding A Skull. We're Trying To Use A Thing We Don't Understand To Understand Ourselves.

I Think All Musicians Should Understand That You Have Chosen Not To Be A Soldier But A Musician.