You've got to realize. In the western world, regardless of what color you are, what title the music is, it's all played by the same notes.

To me, human existence exists on a multiple level, not just on a two-dimensional level, not just having to be identified with what you do and what you say.

Only America makes you feel that everybody wants to be like you. That's what success is: Everybody wants to be like you.

I don't know what they're thinking about. Just because someone says, 'I like what you do' or something: They might like it today and tomorrow they might not. I've had that experience with record companies.

Jazz is the only music in which the same note can be played night after night but differently each time.

Even when you write it, someone's got to play it. So if you can play it and bypass all the rest of the things, you're still doing as great as someone that has spent forty years trying to find out how to do that. I'm really pro-human beings, pro-expression of everything.

We in the Western world suffer from too many categories and classes; we've forgotten that we all still have diapers on. We've separated music from life.