Music isn't about music, it's about life.

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

The strongest thing that any human being has going is their own integrity and their own heart. As soon as you start veering away from that, the solidity that you need in order to be able to stand up for what you believe in and deliver what's really inside, it's just not going to be there.

The true artform is being a human being.

Being a musician is what I do, but it's not what I am.

As a human being, I'm concerned about the world that I live in.So, I'm concerned about peace.I'm concerned about man's inhumanity to man. I'm concerned about the environment.

All you have to do is play one note. But it needs to be the right note.