Quotes About Dedication

Jason Katims is fantastic.

When I go into a room to write, it's like I'm not trying to say, 'I need to write a song that sounds like Eric Church or Jason Aldean.' I just try to get the best song that's in the room that day. Whatever style or sound that may be, I'm not afraid to attack it at that angle.

I'll say it, I love working with actors, I'm a fan of actors. They bring so much, and they can also break a movie, but when it works I give it all to the actors. I'll say it, I think that 'The Transporter' is great not because of my direction, it really is great because Jason Statham was great in it.

My goal is to be the Jay Z of DJing.

I'm a fan of Jay-Z, I'mma always be a fan of Jay-Z.

If I gotta do a Jay-Z beat I want to stop everything. Tell everybody hold my calls, everything.

Jazz is not the kind of music you are going to learn to play in three or four years or that you can just get because you have some talent for music.

As a matter of fact, we put it down because we wanted to be jazz pickers.

I was a jazz drummer, and it was my life for a while: what I lived and breathed every day.

Even though I left for a year, I grew here as a Jazz man. If I'm fortunate enough to go into the Hall of Fame, I will go as a Jazz man.

Then I took 8 years of French Horn, first jazz, and then classical.

What I see for the band by the end of this year is the Complex live at the Montreux Jazz Festival. I want my guys to be comfortable. I'm certainly not in this for the money, but I'd really like to see my guys make some money off of this stuff.

I have a bachelor's and a master's in jazz.

I'd like to do something involving jazz. But books are how I earn my living, and I'd like to stay with the horse I rode in on.

I started off with classical music, and I got into jazz when I was about 14 years old. And I've been playing jazz ever since.

Jazz is an art that takes decades to appreciate and understand.

I discovered flamenco when I was 14, before I even got involved with jazz music. I was so crazy about flamenco music. I wanted to be a flamenco guitar player.

I wanted to be a jazz musician.

I work so hard, even Donna Summer would be jealous.

All my fans saw me as some little kid who can't even afford new jeans in his room, so they'll support me. That'll work until I become a success.

I've been married for 23 years to Jeff McDonald from Redd Kross.

I love Jeff Bridges. You can never go wrong with that guy. I hope to work with him one day.

I'm a big fan of Lance Archer, Jeff Cobb, Luke Harper.

When Jeff and I were first starting out and trying to make a name for ourselves, we were doing indy shows, and would take whatever we could get just to have as much in-ring time as we could.