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

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

It pulled me like a magnet, jazz did, because it was a way that I could express myself.

I've been curious ever since I was a little kid.

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.

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.

Buddhism has turned me on to my humanness, and is challenging my humanness so that I can become more human.