I have to care and I have to be honest and have the courage to be vulnerable. If that happens, then that's the best I can do. To just be a puppet for the audience is not very courageous. Just to do whatever they say they want - because a lot of times people will hear something new that they hadn't heard before and get turned on by a new experience and will want to hear more of that.

Forget about trying to compete with someone else. Create your own pathway. Create your own new vision.

Jazz is a music that is open enough to borrow from any other form of music, and has the strength to influence any other form of music.

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

I'm aware that a lot of what is happening in jazz has not had a very dynamic change in a long time.

I've been a religious, spiritual person for a long time.

So much of what I create has been due to the influence of Miles Davis and Donald Byrd, and so many of those that have passed on. Their music, their legacy lives on with the rest of us because we are so highly influenced by their experience and what they have given us.