I approach everything in my life the same way; if it feels right, I know it.

The whole rise of new adult contemporary music and smooth jazz was a nice surprise.

I practice my saxophone three hours a day. I'm not saying I'm particularly special, but if you do something three hours a day for forty years, you get pretty good at it.

I really create everything I do from the heart.

I think everybody has to kind of decide what the word 'jazz' means to them, and that's fine.

What is music anyway? It's a form of communication, and that's why I play the kind of music that I think - that I hope - can communicate with people.

Maybe the biggest thing that I've learned musically is that anything is possible. Things can work when maybe they don't seem like they can.

I've learned that you simply can't control those bad vibes.

Just figure out what you think jazz is, and then if it fits into that category, it's jazz, and if it doesn't, it isn't. It's no big deal.

I learned so much about playing and touring being on the road and in the studio with Jeff, but I'd always played a lot of gigs in Seattle even prior to joining the Fusion.

That's my ideal day, time with my boys.

Some say if you want success surround yourself with successful people. I say if you want true and lasting success surround yourself with people of integrity.

Pollution is nothing but resources we're not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we've been ignorant of their value.

People hide the truth to protect those they love!

The war changed everybody's attitude. We became international almost overnight.

There is possibility in every difficulty.

The veil that clouds your eyes shall be lifted by the hands that wove it.

People say I look younger than the music I'm doing just because the songs are older. Hopefully I can keep my youthful look!

I don't have any oratory skills. But I would not use them if I had.

I still remember discovering the classic rock station when I was in high school and being totally blown away by it.