You can't just walk away when somebody recognizes you. You have to take some time out and talk to them. It's not a waste of time - I just love talkin….

I really create everything I do from the heart..

I've never personally criticized anyone else's music, but I know that the public's real problem is not the music I make but the perception that I pla….

I don't play the traditional Charlie Parker songs. But I do improvise and I do create with my instrument, and that to me is jazz. But there are peopl….

I practice my saxophone three hours a day. I'm not saying I'm particularly special, but if you do something three hours a day for forty years, you ge….

That's my ideal day, time with my boys..

I learned so much about playing and touring being on the road and in the studio with Jeff, but I'd always played a lot of gigs in Seattle even prior ….

Just because people play songs with great technique doesn't mean the records are better..

The criticism is that it's too simple, but my feeling is it's more of a challenge making someone feel an emotion in four notes than in 25 notes..

I started realizing that music is the one area where I've always let go. When that saxophone goes into my mouth, I get into a space where I never thi….

I approach everything in my life the same way; if it feels right, I know it..