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• ‟ I was exposed to many kinds of music including rock and disco, classical and folk, Midtown and Miles Davis, Sly Stone and David Bowie.

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• ‟ My earliest attempts at writing were when I was seven. I would sit at the piano and transcribe the songs I heard on the radio. I'd change little things in the music and write different lyrics.

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• ‟ Anything I do has to have integrity, so if you just want to make music, it's not difficult finding support. The hard part for a publicist or manager is making a star.

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

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• ‟ I just think music is so intrinsically linked with images in the culture that we live in that you'll be hard-pressed to have an experience with the music without a preconceived notion.

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• ‟ I love people, and I love to be with people and to make music with people, but my natural state is to revert back to being by myself in my house, which is cool because that's where I practice and write and listen and study.

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• ‟ 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.

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• ‟ I never think my music isn't easy until I got to teach it to other people.

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• ‟ I focused primarily on being an instrumentalist and studying music and on my primary means of expression: composing and playing.

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