Best of Q: Herbie Hancock on embracing boundless possibilities
In a special two-part interview, jazz legend Herbie Hancock reflects on his storied career.
From the Best of Q, jazz legend Herbie Hancock joins guest host Tom Power to discuss his memoir, Possibilities, and his decades-long devotion to re-defining jazz.
In a special two-part interview, the 14-time Grammy Award winner offers insight into his genre-bending hits, his creative chemistry with Miles Davis, and the spiritual worldview that keeps him grounded. He also opens up about his long-secret crack cocaine addiction, which he discussed for the first time in the book, and how the curiosity that fuels his work also led him down that dark path.
Check out some of our favourite quotations below.
On making "mistakes":
On Miles Davis:
On long-secret crack addiction: