I've never really been interested in doing a solo piano tour.

There's so much spontaneity involved, what do you practice? How do you practice teamwork? How do you practice sharing? How do you practice daring? How do you practice being nonjudgmental?

So much of what I create has been due to the influence of Miles Davis and Donald Byrd, and so many of those that have passed on. Their music, their legacy lives on with the rest of us because we are so highly influenced by their experience and what they have given us.

The thing that we possess, that machines don't, is the ability to exhibit wisdom.

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

I've been practising Buddhism for forty years, and that's what has led me to this path of discovering my own humanity and recognizing the humanity in others.

I hope to use dialogue and culture as a means of bringing people of various cultures together, and using that as a way to resolve conflict.