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

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.

There's a part of me that's always charging ahead. I'm the curious kid, always going to the edge.

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

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

Perfection is not very communicative