At a certain point, I became a kind of musician that has tunnel vision about jazz. I only listened to jazz and classical music.

World peace is no longer some pie-in-the-sky thing, because no single person or country is going to solve it on their own.

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

I don't look at music from the standpoint of being a musician; I look at it from the standpoint of being a human being.

It pulled me like a magnet, jazz did, because it was a way that I could express myself.

Each human being exists because there's something they have to offer for the evolution of the universe that only they can fulfill.

I keep recycling and repackaging music that I've done in the past, as though I can't write anymore. Like, okay, I'm done with that. But I need to kind of prod myself again into come on, Herbie, get off your duff and start writing some new music.