I'm not really married to the craft of jazz - I'm married to me, and my style, and whatever I produce..

For the most part, 99 percent of jazz is boring; you've heard it before. People aren't doing anything creative that's extremely modern. They tend to ….

A lot of people in the jazz community are looking at how much notoriety we're getting. And we're an inspiration to a lot of young people, because now….

That's a skill that I'm proud of: to be able to be a jazz musician and go a bit crazy sometimes and other times be able to pull it all in and lay it ….

Instead of hearing, "Oh, he's good," I'd rather hear, "Wow, you changed my feelings today, you made me feel different.".

I do feel a responsibility because most people like me that are my age or younger, they don't quite make it over to the jazz side. They flirt with it….

I think the people who are saying jazz has to sound a particular way, or "what you're doing isn't jazz," are just scared because they can't do it. A ….

Jazz is like a big secret club. The mainstream media doesn't pay any attention to it, it's like 1 percent of the music market - no one cares. Why? Be….

There is a modern take on certain things you can do that, to me, is still jazz..

I grew up in church. That's how most young African American musicians learn how to perform. You could be six years old and playing organ or drums in ….

Once I started getting mainstream people to my shows, I realized we were taking too many solos, and they were too long. I started gauging when people….

When I hear the words jazz pianist, that just means I have the skills to do most things. Because to be a jazz pianist, even to be a bad jazz pianist,….

I think we're an inspiration to young people, to know they can be honest and not run away from influences that are not jazz. We're definitely breedin….

If I was a singer who won those Grammys, I'd be gracing all the magazine covers... I barely got asked to do an interview..

I feel like certain people think that certain styles of music will taint their jazz style..

It's the repetitive thing that brings space. That's one of the things I love secretly about hip-hop. Jazz doesn't have that element. It changes every….

Jazz stopped being creative in the early '80s. After your acoustic era, where you had the likes of the Miles Davis Quintet, when it gets to the '70s ….

A lot of times, jazz musicians try to educate people. What other genre does that?.

Everybody's not going to like jazz, let's just be honest about it. Everybody doesn't like everything. There's a disconnect in generations and some pe….

I think there's good music out there. I just think that radio stations don't play it..

You’ve got to be uncomfortable and rise to different occasions in order to become your best. No one is born a hero, but things happen and your respo….