Branford Marsalis

You hear it in your brain. Whatever makes sense. Some songs work well as quartet songs, sometimes they don't.

Pop doesn't really look back. It can't. What makes pop work is simplicity.

That's kind of like how jazz is sometimes. You're out there predicting the future, and no one believes you.

Shaft was a pop culture figure along t he lines of, I guess, Dirty Harry - except that he wasn't as much of a racist. So yeah, I was always a fan.

I think I was supposed to play jazz.

I have a naturally camp sensibility and a camp sense of humour. I love the icons that gay people love.