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

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 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.

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.

I wish you great fun with your sacred adventure.

In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.

It doesn't make sense to change who you are just to hang out with people you think are cool. You know, you just have to be yourself.

Writing and performing should deepen the meaning of words, should illuminate, transfix and transform.

I talk to people who are musicians, and they go, Oh this is hell. And I go, Are you kidding me? You never put tar paper on a roof, did ya?

Maybe we don't put our young people in situations often enough where they're allowed to fail. When you fail you gain experience, and with enough experience, you don't fail as often.

I know you'll never love me like you used to.

Time after time ... today's crisis shrinks to next week's footnote to a newly headline disaster.

One who contends with immortals lives a very short life.

I was brought up on art. My father thought I had a great hand at art and sent me to art school. But he did not want me to become a photographer.