When your heart and your mind are engaged, you cannot go wrong.

I think anybody who goes away finds you appreciate home more when you return.

With every year of playing, you want to relax one more muscle. Why? Because the more tense you are, the less you can hear.

I think one of the great things about being a musician is that you never stop learning.

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.

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

As you begin to realize that every different type of music, everybody's individual music, has its own rhythm, life, language and heritage, you realize how life changes, and you learn how to be more open and adaptive to what is around us.