I've learned that you simply can't control those bad vibes.

The whole rise of new adult contemporary music and smooth jazz was a nice surprise.

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 get pretty good at it.

I really create everything I do from the heart.

I think everybody has to kind of decide what the word 'jazz' means to them, and that's fine.

What is music anyway? It's a form of communication, and that's why I play the kind of music that I think - that I hope - can communicate with people.

Maybe the biggest thing that I've learned musically is that anything is possible. Things can work when maybe they don't seem like they can.

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

Just figure out what you think jazz is, and then if it fits into that category, it's jazz, and if it doesn't, it isn't. It's no big deal.

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 to joining the Fusion.

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

I’ve been fighting to be who I am all my life. What’s the point of being who I am, if I can’t have the person who was worth all the fighting for?

Some like to believe it's the book that chooses the person.

I come from a musical family as well as a culinary family.

An inch of time on the sundial is worth more than a foot of jade.

You've just got to go out there and try to control the things you can control. Deal with things and stay mentally strong.

To solve big problems you have to be willing to do unpopular things.

Good habits, imperceptibly fixed, are far preferable to the precepts of reason.

Swing is so much more than a dance, it's a way of life. The music gets stuck in your mind and the dance is in your heart and the whole scene is engraved on your soul. You can fly.

I love working with a lot of different films and a lot of different people.

[Georges] Simenon could be very brave like that. You never quite know what you're going to get or how the story's going to be told.