Instead of imposing your will on every situation...focus on including everyone else, and just that little adjustment of attitude gives you the space to understand where and who you are.

What takes its place is very dry education. And the tools that actually can teach you - singing and playing, learning how to participate with other people, spiritual richness - are replaced with a big emphasis on how to memorize things. That's such an incomplete education. Survival of the fittest used to mean being bigger and stronger.

The soul gives us resilience - an essential quality since we constantly have to rebound from hardship.

Flexibility is an essential part of Jazz. It's what gives Jazz music the ability to combine with all other types of music and not lose its identity.

If you want to be different, do something different.

I wanted to make somebody feel like Coltrane made me feel, listening to it.

Trumpet players see each other, and it's like we're getting ready to square off or get into a fight or something.