Jazz really does try to include everything. It's always been popular music. But the wonderful thing about jazz is its willingness to take chances.

Change is always happening. That's one of the wonderful things about jazz music.

That's one wonderful thing about country music - it shifts, ebbs, and flows stylistically, unlike pop music.

Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.

It's wonderful to work with someone with mentor status.

My father's record collection was full of New Orleans music of all kinds. I used to listen to the radio in New York, and all there was on it at the time was Madonna and Michael Jackson, so it sort of passed me by.