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

Clare Fischer was a major influence on my harmonic concept. He and Bill Evans, and Ravel and Gil Evans, finally. You know, that's where it really came from. Almost all of the harmony that I play can be traced to one of those four people and whoever their influences were.

Creativity and artistic endeavors have a mission that goes far beyond just making music for the sake of music.

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

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.

I've been curious ever since I was a little kid.

Music isn't about music, it's about life.