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I grew up watching American films, listening to American music, and it's a big contribution to the rest of the world. I mean, American jazz, for me, is the best thing culturally that America has produced.

I really love jazz, but I will never be a jazz musician as much as I dream. But, I think that the jazz music I love is there in my music.

I love music, and a lot of it. Jazz is probably on the top with guys like Miles Davis. But I even enjoy music from the '60s and '70s.

In the last few years I've been listening to jazz more than anything else. I listen to a lot of world music and experimental here and there.

Jazz was the pop music of its day, and all American popular music has stemmed from it one way or another.

Certainly, jazz has become more of a niche, which is surprising, because it's our music. It's the national music of America.

I love many kinds of music: world music, jazz, classical, pop.

Jazz is not the popular culture. Jazz is in the same position in our culture as classical music. A very small minority of people really love it.

Jazz is known all over the world as an American musical art form and that's it. No America, no jazz. I've seen people try to connect it to other countries, for instance to Africa, but it doesn't have a damn thing to do with Africa.

I've always loved jazz.