I try stuff. I synthesize what's of value with some of the other things I have at my disposal.

A jazz musician is not a jazz musician when he or she is eating dinner or when he or she is with his parents or spouse or neighbors. He's above all a human being . . . the true artform is being a human being.

You can practice to attain knowledge, but you can't practice to attain wisdom.

Globalization means we have to re-examine some of our ideas, and look at ideas from other countries, from other cultures, and open ourselves to them. And that's not comfortable for the average person.

In the world of Art there are no wrong choices.

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

One thing I like about jazz is that it emphasized doing things differently from what other people were doing.