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

I hope that I can make good music out of whatever genre I go into. Just to prove to myself that I can.

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

A great teacher is one who realizes that he himself is also a student and whose goal is not dictate the answers, but to stimulate his students' creativity enough so that they go out and find the answers themselves.

When I was in my early teens, I remember coming to the conclusion that your life never ends.

Back in the day for me was a great time in my life - I was in my 20s. Most people refer to their experiences in their twenties as being a highlight in their life. It's a period of time where you often develop your own way, your own sound, your own identity, and that happened with me, when I was with a great teacher - Miles Davis.

In the past, there's always been one leader that has led the pack to development of the music.