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I made money. What am I gonna invest in? Stocks? No. I'm going to invest in music.

I have tons of jazz records: John Coltrane, Thelonious Monk, Miles Davis. I could go on and on.

Jazz is very much a part of my life. I work with the Thelonious Monk Institute and do the artwork for their program every year.

I've been around jazz and jazz musicians most of my life.

I'm in the music business for one purpose - to make money.

Jazz has always been a melting pot of influences and I plan to incorporate them all.

You know, it's funny... when you're making money, people don't think you're playing jazz. Now when you're not making money, people think that you're a good jazz musician.

Me as an artist, I've ventured off into doing all types of music. I'll do a jazz album, you know what I mean.

I'm a jazz musician, and I really wanted to not miss an opportunity to have the full connection to jazz.

I didn't plan on rock-n-roll. I wanted to learn jazz; I got to know some people doing rock-n-roll with jazz, and I thought I could make some money playing music.