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.

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

Purposefully living a life that glorifies the Kingdom is the essence of our creation

Too often people mistake monsters for gods.

Wishing for something doesn’t mean you should have it, and saying something doesn’t necessarily make it true.

I would like my life to be a movie so I could cut to a montage.

There is nothing more agreeable in life than to make peace with the establishment and nothing more corrupting.

All men know their children mean more than life.

Be Yourself. Life is precious as it is. All the elements for your happiness are already here. There is no need to run, strive, search, or struggle. Just Be.

If you don't want anyone to know anything about you, don't write anything.

With knowing comes caring.

I hate camping, but I love summer camp.