"I could speak Spanish fluently growing up, but I'm so out of practice, and I have such a tremendous respect for songwriting in the Spanish language."

"Travel aesthetics should be just as comfortable and practical as they are fashionable."

"Where globalization means, as it so often does, that the rich and powerful now have new means to further enrich and empower themselves at the cost of the poorer and weaker, we have a responsibility to protest in the name of universal freedom."

"Real freedom lies in wildness, not in civilization."

"Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves."

"Jazz stands for freedom. It's supposed to be the voice of freedom: Get out there and improvise, and take chances, and don't be a perfectionist - leave that to the classical musicians."