Forget about trying to compete with someone else. Create your own pathway. Create your own new vision.

The true artform is being a human being.

Music is the tool to express life - and all that makes a difference.

I don't go around, the way many musicians do, with earbuds in my ear listening to my iPod all day and just sticking my head in the music all the time.

Globalization means we have to re-examine some of our ideas, and look at ideas from other countries, from other cultures, and open ourselves to them. And that's not comfortable for the average person.

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.

Jazz has borrowed from other genres of music and also has lent itself to other genres of music.