I wake up in the morning, I do a little stretching exercises, pick up the horn and play.

Although there was a point with the Tijuana Brass where we were playing for such huge crowds that I kind of lost contact. At one point, the only connection I had with the audience was with people out there lighting cigarettes.

It's very clean. With tape, you get noise.

He has a method that likens the musician to an athlete, so I do physical exercises designed to keep a musician in shape in order to perform the function, which is to play music.

I was taken in by the bravado and the sounds of Mexico... not so much the music, but the spirit.

You know, the record business is much different than being artist on stage.