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I grew up with all these old jazz guys in the '70s in L.A., and they grew up idolizing Charlie Parker, Charles Mingus, Lester Young - all of these incredible musicians.

The apparatus has to serve our improbability and improvisation. Being good and playing the songs is not enough.

I exercise; I have a big career. I'm a parent, and I run a music school.

Buddha means awareness, the awareness of body and mind that prevents evil from arising in either.

People say, 'Where do you live?' and I say that theoretically, I live in London, but basically that's just where I go to change my suitcase. Otherwise, I'm always flying somewhere.

The bonds of trust between the United States and Israel have been frayed, but even the hostility and disrespect the Obama administration has shown has not severed those bonds.