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

We are eternally linked not just to each other but our environment.

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

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.

But, the truth is that everyone is somebody already.

The arts have always served relationships between people of different cultures so well. In a way, the arts function as a very serious kind of ambassador.

I'm aware that a lot of what is happening in jazz has not had a very dynamic change in a long time.