I just see myself as a human being that's concerned about life.

I disoriented myself from everything about being a human being and just played and played and played and sang and sang and sang.

Fiction's about what it is to be a human being.

As a human being, I'm concerned about the world that I live in. So, I'm concerned about peace. I'm concerned about - about man's inhumanity to man. I'm concerned about the environment.

When I talk about celebrities, it's not a dismantling of that human being.

I want them to come away with discovering the music inside them. And not thinking about themselves as jazz musicians, but thinking about themselves as good human beings, striving to be a great person and maybe they'll become a great musician.