When I hear a great musician, I can feel his life inside the music.

The moment you start to talk about playing music, you destroy music. It cannot be talked about. It can only be played, enjoyed and listened to.

I'm not any different from you or the guy down the street or across the globe, we're all connected in some way and hopefully my music can integrate that feeling of human connectedness.

You can have the greatest player in terms of mastering an instrument and you could be yawning your head off when you hear them. So, it's not what you do, but the way you're doing it and in the end that's all that we have

Interplay and interaction are the integral parts of music - they're as important as the notes.

The mathematics of rhythm are universal. They don't belong to any particular culture.

Music that touches the transcendental aspect of a human being is reserved for a marginal audience