Hearing the blues changed my life.

Every performance is different. That's the beauty of it.

I always record far more than I can use. There's probably twice as much recorded as comes out.

Do what you like. This is what I like and that's what I'm doing.

The influence of years of touring with Yanni is apparent in the richness of Joseph's sound, but his musical voice is his own.

'I don't know what it was, but as a child I just gravitated toward the blues; it was an instinct of mine. When I got older, this is the music that soothed me, …

[I] grew up in this city [Miami], and my music is a blend of two cultures. In the beginning it was heavily Cuban. At this point it's [from] all over . . .