The strongest thing that any human being has going is their own integrity and their own heart. As soon as you start veering away from that, the solidity that you need in order to be able to stand up for what you believe in and deliver what's really inside, it's just not going to be there.

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

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.

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

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

I've been practising Buddhism for forty years, and that's what has led me to this path of discovering my own humanity and recognizing the humanity in others.

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