Just Because People Play Songs With Great

I Don't Play The Traditional Charlie Parker Songs. But I Do Improvise And I Do Create With My Instrument, And That To Me Is Jazz. But There Are People Who Use The Word 'jazz' Only In A Traditional Sense, And They Would Be Offended By That, And That's Fine.

You Can't Just Walk Away When Somebody Recognizes You. You Have To Take Some Time Out And Talk To Them. It's Not A Waste Of Time - I Just Love Talking To People. And I Don't Do This To Sell Records. The Truth Is, I Do What I Do Because I Love It.

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.

The Criticism Is That It's Too Simple, But My Feeling Is It's More Of A Challenge Making Someone Feel An Emotion In Four Notes Than In 25 Notes.

Well, Grover Washington Was My Main Influence And When I Went To College, I Started Listening To More Of The Jazz Masters Like Sonny Rollins, Cannonball Adderley, And John Coltrane.