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

The thing that I've always been slightly frustrated with, was that the idea of a CD is kind of confined to a material possession that you can put on a shelf. And the idea of music, for me, is always about both the communication and the sharing of content. And so the interactive part is missing.

When we enlarge our view of the world, we deepen our understanding of our own lives.

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

A Senegalese poet said 'In the end we will conserve only what we love. We love only what we understand, and we will understand only what we are taught.' We must learn about other cultures in order to understand, in order to love, and in order to preserve our common world heritage.

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

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