I don't go around, the way many musicians do, with earbuds in my ear listening to my iPod all day and just sticking my head in the music all the time.

Buddhism has turned me on to my humanness, and is challenging my humanness so that I can become more human.

I think risk-taking is a great adventure. And life should be full of adventures.

Being a musician is what I do, but it's not what I am.

Jazz is a music that is open enough to borrow from any other form of music, and has the strength to influence any other form of music.

You can practice to attain knowledge, but you can't practice to attain wisdom.

It might be something as simple as saying the right word to the right person at the right time-and that could change the course of history. You never really know. But the whole thing is to work at the process of being in sync with the universe, so that everything will align at the proper time so that you can deliver that which is your life mission. And that's why we're here as individuals. And then there's our contribution to the collective. It makes a lot of sense, doesn't it?