Everything has focused on what the technology is capable of doing and making tools and then taking human beings and saying, what can you do with that.

We've been looking at machines for so long, I really wish the technology community would look at human beings first for a change, let's balance the thing out.

It's easy to get sidetracked with technology, and that is the danger, but ultimately you have to see what works with the music and what doesn't. In a lot of cases, less is more. In most cases, less is more.

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.

I'm aiming that towards people, towards humanity, not even just musicians. Because this is about life, not about musicians.

He just blew me away and what it taught me was that Miles didn't hear it as a mistake.