I'm Pushing Ahead On My Own -

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.

It's Very Limiting To Us As A Species, The Concept Of Better-than/less-than. It Just Seems To Be At Its End. I'm Like, This All Fades To Black, And It's Gone. It's Dust. Choose Carefully What You Obsess About.

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.

Her Beauty Cannot Be Measured With Standards Of A Colonized Mind

My Favorite Period Is When We Lived In The Land Of The Three-minute Song. The Motown Thing - I Thought They Were Genius In Knowing That's As Much As A Listener Can Take.