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

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

Our cultural strength has always been derived from our diversity of understanding and experience.

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

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.

Music is powered by ideas. If you don't have clarity of ideas, you're just communicating sheer sound.

Perfection is not very communicative