Culture opens our hearts to one another. And the currency in culture is not money, but trust.

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.

I think anybody who goes away finds you appreciate home more when you return.

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.

I realized late in life that my twin passions are music and people.

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

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