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

The music becomes something that is its own entity.

One thing that attracted me to Buddhism was the support for this larger vision of values.

If you're not judging what happens, then you're trusting what others are doing, what you're playing, and trusting what you're playing.And it can lead you to other ideas, to something maybe you hadn't expressed before.

When a human being is oppressed, the natural tendency is to feel anger. Jazz is a response to oppression that is not bullets and blood. Jazz is the expression of harmony ... and at the same time of hope and freedom.

Music happens to be an art form that transcends language.

We can all be ourselves, be true to ourselves, and all be together.