The true artform is being a human being.

Each human being exists because there's something they have to offer for the evolution of the universe that only they can fulfill.

Music truly is the universal language.

I'm aware that a lot of what is happening in jazz has not had a very dynamic change in a long time.

The value of music is to be able to play one note at the right time in the right way.

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

Jazz has been the voice of freedom for so many countries over the past half century.