Like no matter what happens, this would be the ultimate, they can make something positive happen.

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

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

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 keep recycling and repackaging music that I've done in the past, as though I can't write anymore. Like, okay, I'm done with that. But I need to kind of prod myself again into come on, Herbie, get off your duff and start writing some new music.

Music happens to be an art form that transcends language.

But I have to be careful not to let the world dazzle me so much that I forget that I'm a husband and a father.