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.

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

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

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.

Silence is the biggest weapon sometime..

Synchronicity could be understood as an ordering system by means of which “similar” things coincide, without there being any apparent cause.

You cannot fulfil God's purposes for your life while focusing on your own plans.

I don't think age has anything to do with what you write about.

I think that civil rights issues take a lot of time to develop.

Half of the results of a good intentions are evil; half the results of an evil intention are good.

I'm quite a good reader of people; I like to meet people, and I can tell if they're lying or not.

Commerce is the great civilizer. We exchange ideas when we exchange fabrics.

You've always been my best friend, my soul mate, and now I've fallen in love with you too. Why is that such a crime?

I am impressed by how much of my grandparent's life depended on continuities, contacts, connections, friendships, and blood relationships.