You're just sort of searching for this 'thing' and sometimes you get it and sometimes you don't. All music is imperfect, but in jazz since you're improvising, at least the way I play, I'm trying to follow my train of thought in a solo.
“I always assumed that like my mother before me, one day I would have children.”
“I like Jon Stewart. He's not as obnoxious as Dennis Miller, whom I really can't stand.”