“I am a person who thinks about the music first in trying to achieve so...” — Sonny Rollins Quote

“I am a person who thinks about the music first in trying to achieve something musically valid.”

“I've played with all of the heavyweights in the modern jazz, progressive jazz movement. I've been fortunate enough to play with them, a who's who. All of those guys, I've been fortunate enough to have performed with.”

“I miss playing with Miles. I did play with him a little while before he left the planet, but even at that time I longed to maybe do some things together.”

“In recording, you're trying to make something work sonically - getting the right inflection on the right guitar sound - and maybe a part that would be musically great doesn't sound as cool.”

“I second guess everything I do musically, and I often could spend hours on, say, one snare sound.”

“The people who raised me musically are my mother, who is a classically trained pianist, and my stepfather.”