We're here to bring beauty to the world and make a difference in this planet. That's what art forms are about.

The bass, no matter what kind of music you're playing, it just enhances the sound and makes everything sound more beautiful and full. When the bass stops, the bottom kind of drops out of everything.

As long as there are musicians who have a passion for spontaneity, for creating something thats never been before, the art form of jazz will flourish.

You have to see your unimportance before you can see your importance and your significance to the world.

If you strive to become a good human being with the qualities of generosity, humility and having reverence for life...just maybe you'll become a great musician.

In the midst of creating, a person is raised to another level of consciousness that doesn't have that much to do with everyday thinking. It's as if you could imagine life before there were words.

Creative Arts raise a person to another level of consciousness as if you could imagine life before words.

I just try to play music from my heart and bring as much beauty as I can to as many people as I can. Just give them other alternatives, especially people who arent exposed to creative music.

I want them to come away with discovering the music inside them.

Chris (Anderson) is risking his life with every chord, that's how much it means to him. He has such a reverence for beauty, he plays like an angel.

Before music there was silence and the duet format allows you to build from the silence in a very special way.

Women may not have it easy, but we are given a fairer chance to reach for the top.

Jamie Foxx does a good rendition of me. It's a real gift, mimicry of that kind, the tonal thing. It's sort of like having a talent for playing an instrument.

We dress them [children] in the presumptions of the world. They are the bright small face of hope. They are the last belief we have, the belief in making them believe.

We're travelling for about nine-and-a-half months a year.

Yet she felt an impostor, and already the mask had begun to bite into her face.

We were playing Rock, Paper, Scissors," she told him once. "I was paper and she was rock so I lived and she died.

Change really isn't as hard as we thought if we capture people's interest and give them enjoyable, worthwhile experiences.

No one should be judged by the worst moment of his life.

Being a journalist got me to meet with children who had witnessed all their beliefs, all their faith in the world collapse.

Jay Z and President Bush have a lot in common, that same brash confidence