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

Don't be afraid to expand yourself, to step out of your comfort zone. That's where the joy and the adventure lie.

Buddhism has turned me on to my humanness, and is challenging my humanness so that I can become more human.

If you're not judging what happens, then you're trusting what others are doing, what you're playing, and trusting what you're playing.And it can lead you to other ideas, to something maybe you hadn't expressed before.

You can practice to attain knowledge, but you can't practice to attain wisdom.

The strongest thing that any human being has going is their own integrity and their own heart. As soon as you start veering away from that, the solidity that you need in order to be able to stand up for what you believe in and deliver what's really inside, it's just not going to be there.

I spent five years, at least, working with Miles. Together, we recorded ESP, Nefertiti, Sorcerer -- and I can tell you; each of these albums instantly became jazz classics. Hey, we had Wayne Shorter playing tenor sax, Ron [Carter] on bass, Tony Williams played drums. That was great band we had.