I look for what's of value and extract that. I don't look to criticize.

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.

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

Clare Fischer was a major influence on my harmonic concept. He and Bill Evans, and Ravel and Gil Evans, finally. You know, that's where it really came from. Almost all of the harmony that I play can be traced to one of those four people and whoever their influences were.

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

Creativity and artistic endeavors have a mission that goes far beyond just making music for the sake of music.

I've always been interested in science. I used to take watches apart and clocks apart, and there's little screws, and a little this and that, and I found out if I dropped one of them, that thing ain't gonna work.