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.

Oscar Peterson is the greatest living influence on jazz pianists today.

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

It's not exclusive, but inclusive, which is the whole spirit of jazz.

Of course, it's not the technique that makes the music; it's the sensitivity of the musician and his ability to be able to fuse his life with the rhythm of the times. This is the essence of music.

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

I'm always looking to create new avenues or new visions of music.