I don't look at music from the standpoint of being a musician; I look at it from the standpoint of being a human being.

It pulled me like a magnet, jazz did, because it was a way that I could express myself.

In the world of Art there are no wrong choices.

Jazz is about being in the moment.

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.

I've always been interested in science. I used to take watches apart and clocks apart, and there's little screws, and a little this and that, and I found out if I dropped one of them, that thing ain't gonna work.

If you're not judging what happens, then you're trusting what others are doing, what you're playing, and trusting what you're playing.And it can lead you to other ideas, to something maybe you hadn't expressed before.