It might have been somewhat derivative otherwise, and I'm not the kind of person who's satisfied with being derivative.

There's only one person named Herbie Hancock.

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

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.

You could never tell what was going on with Miles. You'd always leave the session not knowing if they got anything of any value because it was always so different.

Globalization means we have to re-examine some of our ideas, and look at ideas from other countries, from other cultures, and open ourselves to them. And that's not comfortable for the average person.