You don't need the fame to be vital.

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.

I'm one of the people who was a pioneer in encouraging musicians, early in the game, to get interested in technology, and now all the musicians are getting into it.

I look for what's of value and extract that. I don't look to criticize.

It is people's hearts that move the age.

I try stuff. I synthesize what's of value with some of the other things I have at my disposal.

Jazz is a music that is open enough to borrow from any other form of music, and has the strength to influence any other form of music.