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

Music is like the soul of the planet.

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

It's just like heirloom tomatoes; this is heirloom music. We used to have all kinds of diversity in our poultry, in our vegetables, in our fruits, and slowly but surely the monoculture beast comes in. I'm saying that's not a good idea. And if it means that I gotta do it on my own, then I do it on my own.

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

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