Music is like the soul of the planet.

What the future of the planet and music and art and all of it is sharing; it's diversity.

Very old music is, like, 11th century in my mind. That's very old.

I wanted to keep pushing the musical ideas I had about jazz, music from Africa and the Caribbean.

What you have to understand is that blues... it's in a line from the oldest forms of African music. If you're playing it like it's an echo of the past, it would be a lot less exciting, but this music lives today.

I wanted to explore the connections between different kinds of music.