A jazz musician is not a jazz musician when he or she is eating dinner or when he or she is with his parents or spouse or neighbors. He's above all a human being . . . the true artform is being a human being.

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

My first Grammy wasn't even in a jazz category, but of course I was really excited. 'Rockit' was the beginning of kind of a new era for the whole hip-hop movement.

There are a lot of records coming out, in every field of music, not just jazz.

I hope that I can make good music out of whatever genre I go into. Just to prove to myself that I can.

Oscar Peterson is the greatest living influence on jazz pianists today.

People always want to protect what's really going on inside. They want to kind of make visible something that looks more pleasant than what may be happening inside of themselves.