Remember: Always walk in the light. And if you feel like you're not walking in it, go find it. Love the light.

Once you're successful with a certain kind of music, it's hard not to have faith in it as a means to stay successful.

Music is an art form that doesn't need to be explained. It needs to be performed; it needs to be felt; it needs to be listened to; it needs to progress.

I didn't know how well my first album had done; it was enough to get me to do the second album, which was a continuation of the music I'd worked on and perfected.

My hope is that out of all the anger and seeming hostility that we hear in some of today's music will come some sort of coalition that will become politically involved.

Bill Evans is a real serious jazz pianist who, in my book, crossed over boundaries in terms of color. He used the piano as his canvas.

Music comes first from my heart, and then goes upstairs to my head where I check it out.