My involvement in the political arena is to make sure there's a place for culture.

I remember when I was growing up. My great wish was to understand who I was and how I fit in the world.

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

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.

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

Nobody else can make the sound you make.

What came up at age 49 is I realized that of all the things I'm interested in, the thing I'm most interested in is figuring out what makes people tick, why people think the way they do, why they act the way they do. And I realized that music is such a great way to investigate why people do what they do.