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I never studied jazz technically; I just know and love the music.

In fact, jazz has such a great feeling and great emotional content that it really doesn't require you to have technical understanding of it. I think you just have to allow your feelings to go with the music and you will find yourself carried along by it fairly quickly.

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 think jazz is a wonderful learning tool.

The point of jazz is, you do something and then you go on.

Jazz comes from our way of life, and because it's our national art form, it helps us to understand who we are.

Jazz was more of a tool for me to use to enhance my musicality.

We all know that jazz demands a cultivation of the mind.

Jazz sometimes can be really complicated and inaccessible to people because they don't know what to start with. You can start with something that you love, but if you start with something that you hate, then it's like, 'You know what, I hate jazz.' It took me a lot of time to catch on to jazz, too.

If I'm not a jazz player all the time, I've at least been cued in to what I do by jazz.