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" 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. "

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" It's easy to get sidetracked with technology, and that is the danger, but ultimately you have to see what works with the music and what doesn't. In a lot of cases, less is more. In most cases, less is more. "

" I'm always interested in looking forward toward the future. Carving out new ways of looking at things. "

Looking Forward

" Nobody told me I was a child prodigy. "

" It pulled me like a magnet, jazz did, because it was a way that I could express myself. "

" Being a musician is what I do, but it's not what I am. "

" 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 think there's a great beauty to having problems. That's one of the ways we learn. "

" I'm not special, no more special than anybody else. "

" My first Grammy wasn't even in a jazz category, but of course I was really excited. 'Rockit' was the beginning of kind of a new era for the whole hip-hop movement. "

" Each human being exists because there's something they have to offer for the evolution of the universe that only they can fulfill. "

" It's not the style that motivates me, as much as an attitude of openness that I have when I go into a project. "

" But I have to be careful not to let the world dazzle me so much that I forget that I'm a husband and a father. "

" I like to present something that the people haven't seen or haven't heard before. Otherwise they might as well just stay home and play the record. "

" 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. "

" But, the truth is that everyone is somebody already. "

" I just express myself in any way I feel is appropriate at the moment. "

" 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 someone else or some other entities to do it for us. "

" When you talk about 'doing the work', that's the work I'm interested in. What can I contribute as a human being? "

" The Internet opens up a whole new range of possibilities in a wide range of areas. "

" I've been practising Buddhism for forty years, and that's what has led me to this path of discovering my own humanity and recognizing the humanity in others. "

" In the past, there's always been one leader that has led the pack to development of the music. "

" Since time is a continuum, the moment is always different, so the music is always different. "

" I try stuff. I synthesize what's of value with some of the other things I have at my disposal. "

" 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 on my instincts. "

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

" I've been curious ever since I was a little kid. "

" I hope to use dialogue and culture as a means of bringing people of various cultures together, and using that as a way to resolve conflict. "

" Jazz has borrowed from other genres of music and also has lent itself to other genres of music. "

" Getting the Oscar had the biggest impression on me. "