I Feel A Lot More Secure About

I Don't Look At Music From The Standpoint Of Being A Musician; I Look At It From The Standpoint Of Being A Human Being.

The Most Valuable Things In Life Are Priceless. They Are Courage, Compassion, Wisdom, Respect For Ourselves And Others, And A Host Of Characteristics That We Call The Beauty Of The Human Spirit.

One Of The Greatest Experiences I Ever Had Was Listening To A Conversation With Joni Mitchell And Wayne Shorter. Just To Hear Them Talking, My Mouth Was Open. They Understand Each Other Perfectly, And They Make These Leaps And Jumps Because They Don't Have To Explain Anything.

Being Vulnerable Is Allowing Yourself To Trust. That's Hard For A Lot Of People To Do. They Feel A Lot More Secure If They Kind Of Put Walls Around Themselves. Then They Don't Have To Trust Anybody But Themselves. But To Allow You To Trust Not Only Yourself But Trust Others Means - Is What's Required To Be Vulnerable, And To Have That Kind Of Trust Takes Courage.

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.