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

I try to practice with my life.

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

Jazz to me is the spirit of freedom. I mean real freedom. Freedom to explore. Freedom to express. Freedom to pour out your guts.

You can expand, repeat, even change keys and do other things electronically to give certain elements and phrases more cohesiveness.

I don't go around, the way many musicians do, with earbuds in my ear listening to my iPod all day and just sticking my head in the music all the time.

You can change your character and, at the same time, change your fortune.