I was pretty much prepared because I was already playing in extremely good ways when I arrived from Europe because I played jazz four or five years before I arrived here.

I did extensive, extensive recordings and made a classical CD-ROM set, which is still on the market. For ten years, it was by itself as the cream of the crop of samples.

I thought it was time to get a group together and the first person I thought of was Wayne Shorter. I called Wayne and in the meantime, Wayne called me to make an album with him, which was Super Nova.

I was very much fascinated with the technology we had that we could edit in the computer our compositions, but all the sounds that were available on the market were crap.

I continued studying by myself in the field of jazz with my own technique of improvisation, walking bass lines, rhythms, all kinds of stuff, which I created for myself.

So the whole basis for jazz music is based on the fact that the bass player could not play his instrument.

I actually met Chick Corea in New York, where I was staying with a bass player friend.

I am touring in Europe. I am putting together a trio and a quartet. I am playing solo concerts with my symphonic sounds. I am very much engaged back to playing and recording and everything.

Miles Davis had me play and he hired me the following week and after that, everything broke wide open.

I basically started playing violin at the age of six. That lasted about three years because my previous teacher died and the second teacher didn't really know how to successfully get me going.

So I am one of those bass players who can do something and musically, it was back then and now it is even more, if you noticed on the new album, I am not playing all the time anymore.

In the midst of compassion, we find ourselves. We discover our true purpose.

Do you wish to take control of your life? Begin by focusing on steering the storm, rather than where the lightening strikes.

Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

When you start to beat yourself up, remind yourself of how worthy you are of love.

To rally every black sheep is my goal.

Never forget, your family should always have priority over your work.

They who are all things to their neighbors cease to be anything to themselves.

A true inner world is often revealed by style and sensibility as much as by what appears to be confession.

There is an angel within the monkey struggling to get free, and this is what the historical crisis is all about.

The poet's voice need not merely be the record of man, it can be one of the props, the pillars to help him endure and prevail.