“It's not easy to play in a framework that requires simplicity and to t...” — Herbie Hancock Quote

It's not easy to play in a framework that requires simplicity and to tastefully find ways to interject the kind of freedom that we have in playing jazz.

My first Grammy wasn't even in a jazz category, but of course I was really excited. 'Rockit' was the beginning of kind of a new era for the whole hip-hop movement.

The spirit of jazz is the spirit of openness.

Creativity and artistic endeavors have a mission that goes far beyond just making music for the sake of music.

The strongest thing that any human being has going is their own integrity and their own heart. As soon as you start veering away from that, the solidity that you need in order to be able to stand up for what you believe in and deliver what's really inside, it's just not going to be there.

People don't really understand, but having people stare, and point, and take pictures, even if it is in a positive framework, is quite isolating; there's no two ways about it. You feel a little bit, you know, freakish.

The moral landscape is the framework I use for thinking about questions of morality and human values in universal terms.

I really had a hard time reading greens. One week I could get really hot and just see the lines really well and the next week I just had no chance. AimPoint has just given me a system, a system that doesn't work every time, but it at least gives me a framework that's a lot tighter.

The sound principle of a topsy-turvy lifestyle in the framework of an upside-down world order has stood every test.