I think I was supposed to play jazz.

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.

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

World peace is no longer some pie-in-the-sky thing, because no single person or country is going to solve it on their own.

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

I don't view myself as a musician anymore - I view myself as a human being that functions as a musician when I'm functioning as a musician, but that's not 24 hours a day. That's really opened me up to even more perspectives because now I look at music, not from the standpoint of being a musician, but from the standpoint of being a human being.

I don't look at music from the standpoint of being a musician; I look at it from the standpoint of being a human being.