We quest for the perfect performance and every note has to be right. Man, every note is not right in life.
You don’t know what you like, you like what you know. In order to know what you like, you have to know everything.
Jazz is so incestuous that it’s starting to kill itself.
Jazz fans love Miles and I love him for a myriad of reasons, but the overviews are always too simplistic.
So much of Jazz doesn’t have an audience other than music students or musicians.
We all played bad before we played good.
Pop doesn’t really look back. It can’t. What makes pop work is simplicity.
My job is to write songs that have emotional meaning to me.
