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.

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

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

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

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

I'm always interested in looking forward toward the future. Carving out new ways of looking at things.

Being a musician is what I do, but it's not what I am.