Kenny G

Generally, I like Indian music because the melodies are usually not too complex, which is how I like music, and that's the way I write music.

If you go to Tiananmen Square, or go to any public area in China, you will hear my music at some point.

With the sax, I learned technique well enough so that it feels like part of my body, and I just express myself. That's where I want to get in golf.

Any saxophone player will have those influences come through in their music in a very different way. I can listen to the same 10 sax players as someone else for my entire life, and we'll both play completely differently. That's the beauty of being a musician.

I don't go to clubs. I don't know what club mixes are supposed to sound like.

I listen to old jazz and classical music, and that's it.

I live my life and play my music, and I don't really seek out other people's approval or accolades or things like that. I try to do what's true to me, and how it all comes out is fine.

Unless I've got Katy Perry on the cover of my CD, it's going to be tough to sell a lot of records.

I just started as a part of the public school music program. I took lessons at the school every Friday and was a part of the school band. I was just a normal kid taking instrumental lessons at school, nothing special.

There are a few countries that, for whatever reason, really enjoy listening to my music.

Maybe the biggest thing that I've learned musically is that anything is possible. Things can work when maybe they don't seem like they can.

You can't just walk away when somebody recognizes you. You have to take some time out and talk to them. It's not a waste of time - I just love talking to people. And I don't do this to sell records. The truth is, I do what I do because I love it.

Maybe I'm a dreamer, but I think the ordinary guy has just as much right to say 'This is a good song' as somebody who is in the music business.

I'm just more into playing golf. It's a great thing.

Just figure out what you think jazz is, and then if it fits into that category, it's jazz, and if it doesn't, it isn't. It's no big deal.

I think everybody has to kind of decide what the word 'jazz' means to them, and that's fine.

I don't play the traditional Charlie Parker songs. But I do improvise and I do create with my instrument, and that to me is jazz. But there are people who use the word 'jazz' only in a traditional sense, and they would be offended by that, and that's fine.

When I play live, I feel how the audience is going and follow and lead at the same time.

I'm responsive to my public, but I also follow my heart.

I approach everything in my life the same way; if it feels right, I know it.