I love playing and working on music. It is something that I feel really lucky to be able to spend my life doing. And I don't sleep much!

Its more about conception and touch and spirit and soul than whether my hardware was in place.

My first relationship to any kind of musical situation is as a listener.

Listening is the key to everything good in music.

One very fundamental thing has not changed and I realized that it will never change... is that I really need to go home and practice.

People sometimes say it takes a long time to become a Jazz fan, but for me it took about five seconds.

Most guys at Berklee are going to wind up truck drivers.

More and more as time has gone on, I realize that playing is really more about listening than it is about playing.

Smokin' at the Half Note is the absolute greatest jazz-guitar album ever made. It is also the record that taught me how to play.

Learning to play is mostly about learning to hear, and learning to really listen deeply to sound in a musical way is a lifetime's worth of work.

Jazz is an idea that is more powerful than the details of its history.

It is only through the darkness, we desire the light.

He suffered much, but he understood the mystery of pain: he knew that tears make all things shine.

Never is a man wholly a saint or a sinner.

I do what I can, ' I said. 'When I can do more, I will. You know that.

I'm not intimidated by how people perceive me.

I usually start with a title or maybe a little rhyme or phrase.

I've seen the Pokémon movie, which is probably the worst movie ever made on any subject ever.

I'm a child of the Sixties.

Most men need their wives to need them, and I've seen that lead to their downfall

Have the courage of your convictions once you have made a decision.