Passion is one great force that unleashes creativity, because if you're passionate about something, then you're more willing to take risks.

I think one of the great things about being a musician is that you never stop learning.

One is that you have to take time, lots of time, to let an idea grow from within. The second is that when you sign on to something, there will be issues of trust, deep trust, the way the members of a string quartet have to trust one another.

When you learn something from people, or from a culture, you accept it as a gift, and it is your lifelong commitment to preserve it and build on it.

As a child, you respond physically, tactically. You're delighted by sound, you're delighted by recognizing something. It's like hide and seek. Is it there? Is it not there? Is it this note? Is it not this note? It's one fantastic game.

Jazz has been such a force in music, that any musician, including classical composers, have been influenced, and obviously performers, also.