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We wanted to offer something new to our audience. I hate it when bands stop taking chances.

You always feel like rock critics are frustrated musicians. I envy musicians their ability to live their art and share it with an audience, in the moment.

Compared to what they were, rock concerts now are like business meetings.

The beauty of jazz is that it's malleable. People are addressing it to suit their own personalities.

As long as there are people trying to play music in a sincere way, there will be some jazz.

You have to be willing to deal with the ups and downs of the music, the ups and downs of the audience.

I'm thrilled when I hear the greatest jazz musicians. They continue to search in ways other musicians do not.

If you don't already know about jazz music, how would you be exposed? How would get an opportunity to find out if it spoke to you? If you get exposed to it enough, you might find a taste for it.

I have always been a person who is concerned with the dignity of jazz music and the way jazz musicians have been treated and are treated, and the fact that the music has not been given the kind of due that it deserves.

My only general rule was to steer away from things I played with the band over the past couple of tours. I was interested in re-shaping the Rising material for live shows, so people could hear the bare bones of that.