I hope to use dialogue and culture as a means of bringing people of various cultures together, and using that as a way to resolve conflict.

I think risk-taking is a great adventure. And life should be full of adventures.

Jazz has borrowed from other genres of music and also has lent itself to other genres of music.

Oscar Peterson is the greatest living influence on jazz pianists today.

I like to be on the edge, on the cutting edge, or be into the unknown, into the territory where I have to depend on being in the moment and depending on my instincts.

The thing that we possess, that machines don't, is the ability to exhibit wisdom.

Creativity shouldn't be following radio; it should be the other way around.