If you don't already know about jazz music, how would you be exposed? How would get an opportunity to find out if it spoke to you? If you get exposed to it enough, you might find a taste for it.

You don't have to be fearless to do anything; you can be scared out of your mind. I fear that I won't get better and that I won't have time to practice. To be called a 'jazz musician' - it's a big responsibility.

I always say that the problem with jazz accessibility is not the content of the music, it's people's ability to access it.

He mixed the British music hall tradition with an American taste for jazz, sex and money,

The big tall buildings, the jazz, the traffic, all of it is communicated through the music. It's incredible. You feel like you are there.

My music is jazz.