You can practice to learn a technique, but I'm more interested in conceiving of something in the moment.

Nobody told me I was a child prodigy.

You make different colors by combining those colors that already exist.

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

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.

In World War II, jazz absolutely was the music of freedom, and then in the Cold War, behind the Iron Curtain, same thing. It was all underground, but they needed the food of freedom that jazz offered.

Don't be afraid to expand yourself, to step out of your comfort zone. That's where the joy and the adventure lie.