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

Music is like the soul of the planet.

I'm old enough to chew my peas and corn without choking.

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

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

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