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

In the past, there's always been one leader that has led the pack to development of the music.

I'm very conscious of the idea of trying to each time present something that I haven't presented before. It's a challenge to me to find something new, to find something innovative, but it's also very exciting.

It pulled me like a magnet, jazz did, because it was a way that I could express myself.

One thing that attracted me to Buddhism was the support for this larger vision of values.

It might be something as simple as saying the right word to the right person at the right time-and that could change the course of history. You never really know. But the whole thing is to work at the process of being in sync with the universe, so that everything will align at the proper time so that you can deliver that which is your life mission. And that's why we're here as individuals. And then there's our contribution to the collective. It makes a lot of sense, doesn't it?

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