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

I've been traveling all over the world for 25 years, performing, talking to people, studying their cultures and musical instruments, and I always come away with more questions in my head than can be answered.

Passion is one great force that unleashes creativity, because if you're passionate about something, then you're more willing to take risks.

Jazz has been such a force in music, that any musician, including classical composers, have been influenced, and obviously performers, also.

Music has always been transnational.

After reaching 50, I began to wonder what the root of life is.

Nobody else can make the sound you make.