Forget About Trying To Compete With Someone

I Got A Chance To Work With Miles Davis, And That Changed Everything For Me, 'cause Miles Really Encouraged All His Musicians To Reach Beyond What They Know, Go Into Unknown Territory And Explore. It's Made A Difference To Me And The Decisions That I've Made Over The Years About How To Approach A Project In This Music.

World Peace Is No Longer Some Pie-in-the-sky Thing, Because No Single Person Or Country Is Going To Solve It On Their Own.

Jazz Is Really About The Human Experience. It’s About The Ability Of Human Beings To Take The Worst Of Circumstances And Struggles And Turn It Into Something Creative And Constructive. That’s Something That’s Built Into The Fiber Of Every Human Being. And I Think That’s Why People Can Respond To It. They Feel The Freedom In It. And The Attributes Of Jazz Are Also Admirable. It’s About Dialogue. It’s About Sharing. And Teamwork. It’s In The Moment, And It's Nonjudgmental.

I Don't Look At Music From The Standpoint Of Being A Musician; I Look At It From The Standpoint Of Being A Human Being.

The Thing That We Possess, That Machines Don't, Is The Ability To Exhibit Wisdom.