Oscar Peterson is the greatest living influence on jazz pianists today.

I am not fundamentally a musician, I am fundamentally a human being.

I like to be on the edge, on the cutting edge, or be into the unknown, into the territory where I have to depend on being in the moment and depending on my instincts.

I think there's a great beauty to having problems. That's one of the ways we learn.

At a certain point, I became a kind of musician that has tunnel vision about jazz. I only listened to jazz and classical music.

We can all be ourselves, be true to ourselves, and all be together.

A jazz musician is not a jazz musician when he or she is eating dinner or when he or she is with his parents or spouse or neighbors. He's above all a human being . . . the true artform is being a human being.