The spirit of jazz is the spirit of openness.

I started off with classical music, and I got into jazz when I was about 14 years old. And I've been playing jazz ever since.

All you have to do is play one note. But it needs to be the right note.

The value of music is to be able to play one note at the right time in the right way.

I think there's a great beauty to having problems. That's one of the ways we learn.

My first Grammy wasn't even in a jazz category, but of course I was really excited. 'Rockit' was the beginning of kind of a new era for the whole hip-hop movement.

My father was really good with math. It's a funny thing, I don't remember my father or my mother being so mechanical-minded. My father always wanted to be a doctor, but he came from a really poor family in Georgia, and there was no way he was going to be a doctor.