All you have to do is play one note. But it needs to be the right note.

Jazz is about being in the moment.

When I was young I used to listen to everything.

I keep recycling and repackaging music that I've done in the past, as though I can't write anymore. Like, okay, I'm done with that. But I need to kind of prod myself again into come on, Herbie, get off your duff and start writing some new music.

The strongest thing that any human being has going is their own integrity and their own heart. As soon as you start veering away from that, the solidity that you need in order to be able to stand up for what you believe in and deliver what's really inside, it's just not going to be there.

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

The thing that we possess, that machines don't, is the ability to exhibit wisdom.