When you struggle to reach for something you don't know, that's where most of the interesting stuff is.

One thing that attracted me to Buddhism was the support for this larger vision of values.

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

Wisdom is the key to understanding the age, creating the time.

My father was really good with math. It's a funny thing, I don't remember my father or my mother being so mechanical-minded. My father always wanted to be a doctor, but he came from a really poor family in Georgia, and there was no way he was going to be a doctor.

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.

Jazz to me is the spirit of freedom. I mean real freedom. Freedom to explore. Freedom to express. Freedom to pour out your guts.