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.

I like to make records sound good. I'm more like a reducer than a producer. If an artist cannot produce themselves, what's the point?

I think I was supposed to play jazz.

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