As a musician I'm kind of nomadic, Waldo-like. I show up in different places, and I'm witness to unbelievable things.

Practicing is not only playing your instrument, either by yourself or rehearsing with others - it also includes imagining yourself practicing. Your brain forms the same neural connections and muscle memory whether you are imagining the task or actually doing it.

When we have a good balance between thinking and feeling... our actions and lives are always the richer for it.

One of the things I love about music is live performance.

Culture opens our hearts to one another. And the currency in culture is not money, but trust.

Music has always been transnational.

It's easy for me to care about Toronto, because Toronto is a community that cares about itself. It represents the world. It talks to itself, and because it does, it figures out that there must be a music garden as part of its existence.