I spent five years, at least, working with Miles. Together, we recorded ESP, Nefertiti, Sorcerer -- and I can tell you; each of these albums instantly became jazz classics. Hey, we had Wayne Shorter playing tenor sax, Ron [Carter] on bass, Tony Williams played drums. That was great band we had.

Jazz translates the moment into a sense of inspiration for not only the musicians but for the listeners.

Inspiration is constantly in the air. It's up to us to develop the sensitivity to pick up on it.

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

Buddhism has turned me on to my humanness, and is challenging my humanness so that I can become more human.

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.