When I was in my early teens, I remember coming to the conclusion that your life never ends.

The arts have always served relationships between people of different cultures so well. In a way, the arts function as a very serious kind of ambassador.

The first thing I ever heard about synthesizers, they were being used in rock.

Getting the Oscar had the biggest impression on me.

I don't go around, the way many musicians do, with earbuds in my ear listening to my iPod all day and just sticking my head in the music all the time.

I feel a lot more secure about the directions I take, than I might have, had I not practiced Buddhism.

Jazz is a music that is open enough to borrow from any other form of music, and has the strength to influence any other form of music.