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When you're playing, you're playing something for the world to hear.

In fact, I heard Bird first, and had got well into listening to him. You know, it's the kind of accidental thing that awareness of a player is: what's available, what somebody happens to play for you.

It's the group sound that's important, even when you're playing a solo.

A play should give you something to think about. When I see a play and understand it the first time, then I know it can't be much good.

Everyone tells me to play as long as you can. Sometimes, it goes in one ear and out the other.

I'd like to feel that whatever I play is a result of whatever I've heard.

If you capture the first thought that you have when you're creating, and then play that to people, it's kind of like the listeners are part of that beginning. And that's the most exciting part.

I try to call the play as quickly as I possibly can and then shut up and let the crowd roar because, to me, the crowd is the most wonderful thing in the whole world when it's making noise.

There's a lot of people in the community who are seeing a play for a first time, and that, to me, is really exciting.

I have to play as much of the game as I allow myself to get the music heard. But it's not unlike the rest of the world, so I'm not as up in arms about it as I could be.