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.

I like to be on the edge, on the cutting edge, or be into the unknown, into the territory where I have to depend on being in the moment and depending on my instincts.

Jazz to me is the spirit of freedom. I mean real freedom. Freedom to explore. Freedom to express. Freedom to pour out your guts.

I try to practice with my life.

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

I don't mind being classified as a jazz artist, but I do mind being restricted to being a jazz artist. My foundation has been in jazz, though I didn't really start out that way. I started in classical music, but my formative years were in jazz, and it makes a great foundation.

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.