You'd Hear Willie Nelson, Then

You Know, Most Of My Career I Wrote About Moments In Time. All Of Us Have Felt One Thing Or Another And It Didn't Last Very Long. Now I'm Drawing From Real Experience. It's A Huge Difference.

Being A Musician, You Want To Be Able To Do The Hardest Stuff There Is. People Would Think It's Classical, But In Classical, It's All On The Page And The Difficulty Is Keeping Up With The Music.

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.

The Hardest Thing To Do In This Business Is To Still Be Around. When Music Changes, When Labels' Resources Have Dried Up, It Becomes Harder And Harder To Continue To Make A Living At This.

I Listen To All Kinds Of Songs. There's Something To Be Learned From Every Type Of Music And From The One Making It, Whether It's Pop Or Jazz Or Hip-hop.