I'm always looking to create new avenues or new visions of music.

Over the years I've made decisions about things, especially music, and have been scoffed at and ridiculed and opposed, but I knew I had to do these things.

The thing is, much of the way I look at music now, and its role as an aspect of culture, and creative expression for human beings in the 21st century, much of the way I look at it for a record like Future 2 Future is very similar to how I might look at it for a record like Directions in Music.

Music happens to be an art form that transcends language.

Jazz is a music that is open enough to borrow from any other form of music, and has the strength to influence any other form of music.

When you try to define a purity as being something that's closed and limited, you're not talking about the music that I play called jazz.