Sound is what drives my solos, not verbal concepts, I never think 'I'm going to use a Lydian Dominant scale and then go up a half-step', even though that might be exactly what I end up doing.

...The key to playing with any group is you listen all the time and you listen more than you play.

Hang on to your eccentricities, because they will give you a style.

When you compare music, you lose the joy of listening to it.

We don't want any vocalist messing up the music.

I find as much inspiration from the forerunners of jazz as I do the modern-day innovators of jazz.

I like forms that are flexible, that can let you feel creative.

Who isn't a fan of Ray Charles?

Generally, when a record label suggests album ideas for you, you smile politely, and then proceed to shoot it down, because it's never what you as an artist feel is right for you.

We long for permanence but everything in the known universe is transient. That’s a fact but one we fight.

When I was a child, I used to paint intently. The older I become, and the closer death approaches, the brighter my life gets day by day.

The truth, however ugly in itself, is always curious and beautiful to seekers after it.

You can't applaud a referee.

Stories in themselves are not automatically good; it has to be the right kind of story told by the right kind of person.

Traffic was very, very free. It was great.

I think if you talk to my colleagues, I was less than a fearsome individual.

Keep your happiness where it can't be hurt: in Christ.

Treat your life like a game.

Violence is essentially wordless. and it can begin only where thought and rational communication have broken down.