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

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

Forget about trying to compete with someone else. Create your own pathway. Create your own new vision.

I keep recycling and repackaging music that I've done in the past, as though I can't write anymore. Like, okay, I'm done with that. But I need to kind of prod myself again into come on, Herbie, get off your duff and start writing some new music.

World peace is no longer some pie-in-the-sky thing, because no single person or country is going to solve it on their own.

The Internet opens up a whole new range of possibilities in a wide range of areas.

Of course, it's not the technique that makes the music; it's the sensitivity of the musician and his ability to be able to fuse his life with the rhythm of the times. This is the essence of music.