A great teacher is one who realizes that he himself is also a student and whose goal is not dictate the answers, but to stimulate his students' creativity enough so that they go out and find the answers themselves.

I started off with classical music, and I got into jazz when I was about 14 years old. And I've been playing jazz ever since.

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

We can all be ourselves, be true to ourselves, and all be together.

People are afraid to spend money now because they dont know how long theyre going to be working.

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

Since time is a continuum, the moment is always different, so the music is always different.