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

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

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

Nobody told me I was a child prodigy.

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

I have to care and I have to be honest and have the courage to be vulnerable. If that happens, then that's the best I can do. To just be a puppet for the audience is not very courageous. Just to do whatever they say they want - because a lot of times people will hear something new that they hadn't heard before and get turned on by a new experience and will want to hear more of that.

Don't be afraid to expand yourself, to step out of your comfort zone. That's where the joy and the adventure lie.