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

In the world of Art there are no wrong choices.

People are afraid to spend money now because they dont know how long theyre going to be working.

A jazz musician is not a jazz musician when he or she is eating dinner or when he or she is with his parents or spouse or neighbors. He's above all a human being . . . the true artform is being a human being.

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

You make different colors by combining those colors that already exist.

Being vulnerable is allowing yourself to trust. That's hard for a lot of people to do. They feel a lot more secure if they kind of put walls around themselves. Then they don't have to trust anybody but themselves. But to allow you to trust not only yourself but trust others means - is what's required to be vulnerable, and to have that kind of trust takes courage.