Without Wisdom, The Future Has No Meaning,

When I Was Young I Used To Listen To Everything.

I Keep Recycling And Repackaging Music That I've Done In The Past, As Though I Can't Write Anymore. Like, Okay, I'm Done With That. But I Need To Kind Of Prod Myself Again Into Come On, Herbie, Get Off Your Duff And Start Writing Some New Music.

Clare Fischer Was A Major Influence On My Harmonic Concept. He And Bill Evans, And Ravel And Gil Evans, Finally. You Know, That's Where It Really Came From. Almost All Of The Harmony That I Play Can Be Traced To One Of Those Four People And Whoever Their Influences Were.

It's Part Of Life To Have Obstacles. It's About Overcoming Obstacles; That's The Key To Happiness.

My First Grammy Wasn't Even In A Jazz Category, But Of Course I Was Really Excited. 'rockit' Was The Beginning Of Kind Of A New Era For The Whole Hip-hop Movement.