I Always Wonder What Drives Us As

But The Greatest Thing About Music Is Putting It Out There For People To Figure Out. You Want The Listener To Find The Song On Their Own. If You Give Too Much Away, It Takes Away From The Imagination.

My Dream As A Child Was To Play With A Bass Player Like Ray Brown, Who Played With The Oscar Peterson Trio. The Feeling I Had Listening To His Work Was Almost Carnal, So To Actually Play For Him Was Earth-shattering For Me.

I Like To Interpret 'call Me A River', As If I'm Saying, 'now You're Telling Me You Love Me After All That, And I'm Telling You To Shove Off.' That's My Interpretation. But I Would Never 'say' That Because Somebody Else Might Interpret The Song In Another Way.

I Mean, I Don't Think I Would Call Claus To Do An Album Of Big Band Tunes. You Know, Just Like Arrangers Write For The Artist They Have In Mind; You Have To Keep In Mind If You're Going To Work With Claus Ogerman. You Invite Him To Do What He Does.

Sometimes I Can't Get Out Of The Character Because The Story Is Very Intense.