Music is not the only reason that I practice Buddhism anymore because it has affected my whole life.

Without wisdom, the future has no meaning, no valuable purpose.

I learned the importance of being nonjudgmental, taking what happens and trying to make it work.That's something you should apply to life.

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

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 don't go around, the way many musicians do, with earbuds in my ear listening to my iPod all day and just sticking my head in the music all the time.

I'm aware that a lot of what is happening in jazz has not had a very dynamic change in a long time.