I don't view myself as a musician anymore - I view myself as a human being that functions as a musician when I'm functioning as a musician, but that's not 24 hours a day. That's really opened me up to even more perspectives because now I look at music, not from the standpoint of being a musician, but from the standpoint of being a human being.

Music isn't about music, it's about life.

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.

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 learn a technique, but I'm more interested in conceiving of something in the moment.

I like to be on the edge, on the cutting edge, or be into the unknown, into the territory where I have to depend on being in the moment and depending on my instincts.

The Internet opens up a whole new range of possibilities in a wide range of areas.