Inviting audiences to open up and hear things differently is an important part of what I do. But I still love to sing songs with words, too.

I bury my mind in my book, the Bible. Every morning it's the first thing that I do. I've been doing it for years and years. So I want to come back here [to Israel] to see the places that I read about every day. It's very important to my faith to feed [my] spirit in Israel.

The audience is like my instrument. It's not just me up there, it's collaborative.

Part of our responsibility as parents, as adults, is to set examples for children. But we have to like children in order to be really happy fulfilled adults

The true musician is to bring light into people's hearts.

I'd actually been making my living as an organist with bands since I was probably 15 or 16 years old, and then as a senior in high school I put together a jazz quintet called The Bobby Mack Jazz Quintet.

Improvisation is the courage to move from one note to the next.