It's a wonderful thing to have life and to look at all this creation and say thank you. I even say it on stage.

What I try to get beyond is playing music at people and, instead, to play music with people because audience members are constantly part of the experience. What they say in their body language, what they say in their eyes, what they sing with me... it's an 'us,' and there's a communication that's like... it's like church, man.

Jazz told people about the special music that came out of America and about America in general and this kind of liberty and freedom that we have.

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