Don't be afraid to expand yourself, to step out of your comfort zone. That's where the joy and the adventure lie.

One thing that sticks in my mind is that jazz means freedom and openness. It's a music that, although it developed out of the African American experience, speaks more about the human experience than the experience of a particular people.

Being vulnerable is allowing yourself to trust. That's hard for a lot of people to do. They feel a lot more secure if they kind of put walls around themselves. Then they don't have to trust anybody but themselves. But to allow you to trust not only yourself but trust others means - is what's required to be vulnerable, and to have that kind of trust takes courage.

World peace is no longer some pie-in-the-sky thing, because no single person or country is going to solve it on their own.

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

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

I'm very conscious of the idea of trying to each time present something that I haven't presented before. It's a challenge to me to find something new, to find something innovative, but it's also very exciting.