Jazz to me is the spirit of freedom. I mean real freedom. Freedom to explore. Freedom to express. Freedom to pour out your guts.

Technology has developed to a whole other level and theres the scientist part of me that loves that stuff.

But I have to be careful not to let the world dazzle me so much that I forget that I'm a husband and a father.

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

I don't view myself as a musician anymore - I view myself as a human being that functions as a musician when I'm functioning as a musician, but that's not 24 hours a day. That's really opened me up to even more perspectives because now I look at music, not from the standpoint of being a musician, but from the standpoint of being a human being.

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.

It might be something as simple as saying the right word to the right person at the right time-and that could change the course of history. You never really know. But the whole thing is to work at the process of being in sync with the universe, so that everything will align at the proper time so that you can deliver that which is your life mission. And that's why we're here as individuals. And then there's our contribution to the collective. It makes a lot of sense, doesn't it?