I don't have any particular goals in making a recording. In a way the recording is itself the goal. The music comes into my mind, and from there the main job is to give form to it.

There are two kinds of success. One is musical or artistic and the other is commercial.

Spirituality is worthless if it's not practical. Music is my work. I am a musician.

I just want to keep exploring music and hopefully the orders will keep coming in and I'll be able to keep growing the interior and exterior sides of my life.

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

If I can get out of the way, if I can be pure enough, if I can be selfless enough, and if I can be generous and loving and caring enough to abandon what I have in my own preconceived silly notions of what I think I am - and become truly who in fact I am, which is really just another child of God - then the music can really use me. And therein lies my fulfillment. That's when the music starts to happen.

In a way records are like paintings. Instead of using paints and brushes we use sounds and instruments.