Maybe I'm a dreamer, but I think the ordinary guy has just as much right to say 'This is a good song' as somebody who is in the music business.

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 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.

[The cats] scamper in front of my legs, causing me to fall and face plant into whatever furniture is closest. They especially like to play this game when I’m carrying piping hot coffee.

If you play with dirt, no matter if you win or lose, either way you will get dirty.

Your body will forget, but your mind often doesn't.

It was not about the sea or the sand, but burying her feet there had seemed to cure what had worried her...

The time of persecution and problems is the time to thank and praise God

We are not so sensible of the greatest Health as of the least Sickness.

You cannot have a happy ending to a miserable journey.

When contemplated in its extreme, almost any power looks dangerous.

Meditation is the eye that sees the Truth, the heart that feels the Truth and the soul that realises the Truth.

We need to become energy independent or at least aspire to that.