Without wisdom, the future has no meaning, no valuable purpose.

We need to put into practice the idea of embracing other cultures. We need to be shaping the kind of world we want to live in instead of waiting for someone else or some other entities to do it for us.

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.

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

I think there's a great beauty to having problems. That's one of the ways we learn.

My father was really good with math. It's a funny thing, I don't remember my father or my mother being so mechanical-minded. My father always wanted to be a doctor, but he came from a really poor family in Georgia, and there was no way he was going to be a doctor.

You can practice to learn a technique, but I'm more interested in conceiving of something in the moment.