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

You don't need the fame to be vital.

I've been curious ever since I was a little kid.

The true artform is being a human being.

When a human being is oppressed, the natural tendency is to feel anger. Jazz is a response to oppression that is not bullets and blood. Jazz is the expression of harmony ... and at the same time of hope and freedom.

One of the greatest attributes of jazz, I think, is that it is that open.

Most people define themselves by what they do - 'I'm a musician.' Then one day it occurred to me that I'm only a musician when I'm playing music - or writing music, or talking about music. I don't do that 24 hours a day. I'm also a father, a son, a husband, a citizen - I mean, when I go to vote, I'm not thinking of myself as 'a musician.'