I don't mind being classified as a jazz artist, but I do mind being restricted to being a jazz artist. My foundation has been in jazz, though I didn't really start out that way. I started in classical music, but my formative years were in jazz, and it makes a great foundation.

Without wisdom, the future has no meaning, no valuable purpose.

You can expand, repeat, even change keys and do other things electronically to give certain elements and phrases more cohesiveness.

Like no matter what happens, this would be the ultimate, they can make something positive happen.

I'm very conscious of the idea of trying to each time present something that I haven't presented before. It's a challenge to me to find something new, to find something innovative, but it's also very exciting.

I feel a lot more secure about the directions I take, than I might have, had I not practiced Buddhism.

Jazz has borrowed from other genres of music and also has lent itself to other genres of music.