It pulled me like a magnet, jazz did, because it was a way that I could express myself.
It's not the style that motivates me, as much as an attitude of openness that I have when I go into a project.
It's part of life to have obstacles. It's about overcoming obstacles; that's the key to happiness.
Forget about trying to compete with someone else. Create your own pathway. Create your own new vision.
I don't view myself as a musician anymore - I view myself as a human being that functions as a musician when I'm functioning as a musician, but that's not 24 hours a day. That's really opened me up to even more perspectives because now I look at music, not from the standpoint of being a musician, but from the standpoint of being a human being.
I'm one of the people who was a pioneer in encouraging musicians, early in the game, to get interested in technology, and now all the musicians are getting into it.
Nobody told me I was a child prodigy.
I think risk-taking is a great adventure. And life should be full of adventures.
I don't see how we can have both the freedoms we had before and the safety net that we all need considering the way the world is today. And that's just because human beings can't trust each other. We've given in over and over to some of the darkest elements that exist in life itself.
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.
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 solidity that you need in order to be able to stand up for what you believe in and deliver what's really inside, it's just not going to be there.
I've been a religious, spiritual person for a long time.
Music happens to be an art form that transcends language.
Music truly is the universal language.
The Internet opens up a whole new range of possibilities in a wide range of areas.
