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Orchestras are not used to playing the kind of stuff jazz musicians like to play. It requires a lot of rehearsal and recording time, so it's much easier to do on a synth or sampler. So, we came up with that idea.

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

I want to expand jazz; I don't want to keep the audience limited. I want to reach people who have never come to a jazz concert before. One way to do that is by making records that have a lot of different kinds of music on them.

The saxophone is a very interesting machine, but I'm more interested in music.

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

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

I think as long as people are around and can hear a record and hear people like Lester Young on a recording, there will always be a great inspiration for somebody to try to create jazz.

I hear many extra-musical things somehow in Coltrane.

You know I want to sing for people, I want to jazz people up I want to make new music that they've never heard.

Even if I could, I wouldn't want to undo the transformation of jazz into a sophisticated art music.