There's only one person named Herbie Hancock.

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.

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

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.

One thing I like about jazz is that it emphasized doing things differently from what other people were doing.

When the suggestion was made that I might consider doing music of Joni Mitchell, I thought it was a fantastic idea. Joni, I admire not only for her music but for her person, because she's a person that really stands out for what she believes in.