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

I hope to use dialogue and culture as a means of bringing people of various cultures together, and using that as a way to resolve conflict.

We are eternally linked not just to each other but our environment.

I look for what's of value and extract that. I don't look to criticize.

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.

My father was really good with math. It's a funny thing, I don't remember my father or my mother being so mechanical-minded. My father always wanted to be a doctor, but he came from a really poor family in Georgia, and there was no way he was going to be a doctor.

I've been a religious, spiritual person for a long time.