As a human being, I'm concerned about the world that I live in.So, I'm concerned about peace.I'm concerned about man's inhumanity to man. I'm concerned about the environment.

So I didn't actually change my name the way some people did.

Being a musician is what I do, but it's not what I am.

In World War II, jazz absolutely was the music of freedom, and then in the Cold War, behind the Iron Curtain, same thing. It was all underground, but they needed the food of freedom that jazz offered.

World peace is no longer some pie-in-the-sky thing, because no single person or country is going to solve it on their own.

You don't need the fame to be vital.

Music is not the only reason that I practice Buddhism anymore because it has affected my whole life.