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

I have yet to find something that beats the power of being in love, or the power of music at its most magical.

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.

One of the marks of a great teacher lies not only in an ability to impart knowledge but also in knowing when to encourage a student to go off on his own.

When your heart and your mind are engaged, you cannot go wrong.

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

I really would like to be involved in things and to understand things, and in some ways you've got to be careful what you wish for because I feel very, very blessed to have such an interesting life and to be able to have little snapshots of lives of people from many different parts of the world.