I don't think there are any pure Africans of the African Americans, but the African part of our history was pretty much taken away from us during slavery, so the 60s gave us a chance, because of the civil rights movement, to kind of re-examine and make some sort of formal connection to our African-ness.

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

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.

All you have to do is play one note. But it needs to be the right note.

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.

One thing that sticks in my mind is that jazz means freedom and openness. It's a music that, although it developed out of the African American experience, speaks more about the human experience than the experience of a particular people.

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