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.

One thing I like about jazz is that it emphasized doing things differently from what other people were doing.

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.

Jazz translates the moment into a sense of inspiration for not only the musicians but for the listeners.

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

The first thing I ever heard about synthesizers, they were being used in rock.

So in other words, we were constantly challenged to grow, and thats what a master does.