Creativity and artistic endeavors have a mission that goes far beyond just making music for the sake of music.

Each human being exists because there's something they have to offer for the evolution of the universe that only they can fulfill.

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.

Don't be afraid to expand yourself, to step out of your comfort zone. That's where the joy and the adventure lie.

I think I was supposed to play jazz.

I feel a lot more secure about the directions I take, than I might have, had I not practiced Buddhism.

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.