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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.

Man, I just feel so fortunate to be a jazz musician at all. I have a hard time thinking of it any other way. It's such a fulfilling vocation. I love it.

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

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

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

I don't think that jazz, as any kind of an art form, has any permanence attached to it, apart from the practitioners of it.

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.

As long as there are musicians who have a passion for spontaneity, for creating something that's never been before, the art form of jazz will flourish.

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 an art that takes decades to appreciate and understand.