The clarinet chose me more than I chose the clarinet.

Clarinet is an incredible instrument. It's a great, expressive instrument.

The clarinet has always been my baby. I just didn't know that for a while.

I'm working really hard to get the clarinet out of that hole, that Benny Goodman thing.

Some old people, they remember that they used to play clarinet, and they remember the squeaks of the clarinet. But I don't play like that.

I focused on the saxophone ever since high school. It wasn't until my album 'Poetica,' which I recorded in 2006, that I went back to the clarinet. It felt like it was waiting for me!