One thing that attracted me to Buddhism was the support for this larger vision of values.

While knowledge may provide useful point of reference, it cannot become a force to guide the future.

I'm very conscious of the idea of trying to each time present something that I haven't presented before. It's a challenge to me to find something new, to find something innovative, but it's also very exciting.

I am not fundamentally a musician, I am fundamentally a human being.

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

Music is not the only reason that I practice Buddhism anymore because it has affected my whole life.

I don't think there are any pure Africans of the African Americans, but the African part of our history was pretty much taken away from us during slavery, so the 60s gave us a chance, because of the civil rights movement, to kind of re-examine and make some sort of formal connection to our African-ness.