I've been a religious, spiritual person for a long time..

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..

One thing that attracted me to Buddhism was the support for this larger vision of values..

At a certain point, I became a kind of musician that has tunnel vision about jazz. I only listened to jazz and classical music..

A jazz musician is not a jazz musician when he or she is eating dinner or when he or she is with his parents or spouse or neighbors. He's above all a….

I think risk-taking is a great adventure. And life should be full of adventures..

The cool thing is that jazz is really a wonderful example of the great characteristics of Buddhism and great characteristics of the human spirit. Bec….

People are afraid to spend money now because they dont know how long theyre going to be working..

I like to be on the edge, on the cutting edge, or be into the unknown, into the territory where I have to depend on being in the moment and depending….

The strongest thing that any human being has going is their own integrity and their own heart. As soon as you start veering away from that, the solid….

I never dreamed I would be a Goodwill Ambassador, and for UNESCO. Perfect organization. It is apolitical and it's about education, science and cultur….

One of the greatest experiences I ever had was listening to a conversation with Joni Mitchell and Wayne Shorter. Just to hear them talking, my mouth ….

I don't go around, the way many musicians do, with earbuds in my ear listening to my iPod all day and just sticking my head in the music all the time..

There are a lot of records coming out, in every field of music, not just jazz..

The thing that we possess, that machines don't, is the ability to exhibit wisdom..

In World War II, jazz absolutely was the music of freedom, and then in the Cold War, behind the Iron Curtain, same thing. It was all underground, but….

Getting the Oscar had the biggest impression on me..

You would not exist if you did not have something to bring to the table of life..

People always want to protect what's really going on inside. They want to kind of make visible something that looks more pleasant than what may be ha….

Of course, it's not the technique that makes the music; it's the sensitivity of the musician and his ability to be able to fuse his life with the rhy….

We need to put into practice the idea of embracing other cultures. We need to be shaping the kind of world we want to live in instead of waiting for ….