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

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.

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 don't think I've ever been true to jazz. There's always a kind of jazz element to what I do. There are a very few genres that I haven't tried out, really, in what I've been doing. As a jazz musician, you can kind of mess about with things with a certain level of musicianship, which helps.

Jazz is a constant theme in my life. My father is a jazz pianist, and from an early age I have been surrounded by it.

Jazz is a hard music, and you have to really work hard and also have fun performing; that's the most important thing.

Jazz is a way of life, and you have to learn about it on the street, so to speak. But the training comes in by giving you the tools to work with.

I was brought up in a house with a lot of appreciation for music, all kinds of music, including jazz. But I never knew that it could really be a career. I didn't know any jazz singers. I never saw live jazz. I only heard these records.

What I love about jazz is the improvisation, the fact that you never know what's going to happen next.

Jazz is not the kind of music you are going to learn to play in three or four years or that you can just get because you have some talent for music.