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

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 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 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.

Threshold is where the madness ends and the magic begins.

Reality is God-centered and all human beings are worshipers, whether or not they are conscious of this reality and its implications.

Though many have tried no one has ever yet explained away the decisive fact that science which can do so much cannot decide what it ought to do.

Be loyal to those who are loyal to you. And respect everyone, even your enemies and competition.

I'm reminded of who I am, who I was, and who I'm supposed to be.

I didn't do improv in college, I never performed, I didn't do theater either. I was in student government, I was a history major.

I know you despise me; allow me to say, it is because you don't understand me.

The face you give the world tells the world how to treat you.

Winter is the time for study, you know, and the colder it is the more studious we are.

An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field.