"You can't separate modern jazz from rock or from rhythm and blues - you can't separate it. Because that's where it all started, and that's where it all come from - that's where I learned to keep rhythm - in church."
"These projects reminded me that legacy matters, and that mine is largely about illuminating the legacy of the culture that made me...to keep its light shining brightly even as it drifts out into the sea of time."
