You go through phases. You have to reinvent reasons for playing, and one year's answer might not do for another.

Music is one of the ways we can achieve a kind of shorthand to understand each other.

You go through phases. You have to reinvent reasons for playing, and one year's answer might not do for another.

When you learn something from people, or from a culture, you accept it as a gift, and it is your lifelong commitment to preserve it and build on it.

Jazz has been such a force in music, that any musician, including classical composers, have been influenced, and obviously performers, also.

Once something is memorable, it's living and you're using it. That to me is the foundation of a creative society.

In performance, we have a greater purpose. The greater purpose is that we're communing together, and we want this moment to be really special for all of us. Because otherwise, why bother to have come at all? It's not about proving anything. It's about sharing something.