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

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

The worst thing you can do is say to yourself, "I want to be just like somebody else." You have to absorb knowledge from someone else, but ultimately you have to find your own voice.

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

Music has always been transnational.

I think of a piece of music as something that comes alive when it is being performed, and I feel that my role in the transmission of music is to be its best advocate at that moment.

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