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

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

The tango is really a combination of many cultures, though it eventually became the national music of Argentina.

As a musician I'm kind of nomadic, Waldo-like. I show up in different places, and I'm witness to unbelievable things.

As a child, you respond physically, tactically. You're delighted by sound, you're delighted by recognizing something. It's like hide and seek. Is it there? Is it not there? Is it this note? Is it not this note? It's one fantastic game.

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.

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