I like the idea of an eclectic approach, incorporating jazz with other forms and other genres of music.

I learned the importance of being nonjudgmental, taking what happens and trying to make it work.That's something you should apply to life.

Being a musician is what I do, but it's not what I am.

A great teacher is one who realizes that he himself is also a student and whose goal is not dictate the answers, but to stimulate his students' creativity enough so that they go out and find the answers themselves.

When you struggle to reach for something you don't know, that's where most of the interesting stuff is.

Creativity shouldn't be following radio; it should be the other way around.

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.