Being vulnerable is allowing yourself to trust. That's hard for a lot of people to do. They feel a lot more secure if they kind of put walls around themselves. Then they don't have to trust anybody but themselves. But to allow you to trust not only yourself but trust others means - is what's required to be vulnerable, and to have that kind of trust takes courage.

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

There are a lot of records coming out, in every field of music, not just jazz.

If you're not judging what happens, then you're trusting what others are doing, what you're playing, and trusting what you're playing.And it can lead you to other ideas, to something maybe you hadn't expressed before.

I've been practising Buddhism for forty years, and that's what has led me to this path of discovering my own humanity and recognizing the humanity in others.

Life is not about finding our limitations, it's about finding our infinity.

One of the greatest attributes of jazz, I think, is that it is that open.