I'm always looking to create new avenues or new visions of music.

I think risk-taking is a great adventure. And life should be full of adventures.

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.

When you struggle to reach for something you don't know, that's where most of the interesting stuff is.

Jazz has borrowed from other genres of music and also has lent itself to other genres of music.

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.

The thing that we possess, that machines don't, is the ability to exhibit wisdom.