All music now, I think, is fair game for jazz musicians to interpret, and they have been. I would consider those songs standards now. "Norwegian Wood" is a standard; "Call Me" is a standard.

Music chooses her musicians.

Jon Deitemyer is the drummer everyone wants right now.

I must say, I don't think there's any more challenging music out there in jazz than what we're doing.

I have a good life. I have nothing to complain about, and the music is just too interesting.

I am a fan of the compositions of The Beatles, but I don't care for their interpretation of them. But as compositions, I just think that some of them are brilliant and have become standards.

Only the debris of wreckage, and not much of that, was left behind by the sharks who fed on tragedy: the fishermen, too, mourned the death of a living child.

I want to remember what we were like before we became ourselves.

Marriage is lonelier than solitude.

There are friendships merely for pleasure, some for the exchange of ideas. Rarest are those friends of one's inmost self.

It's meant to reaffirm the validity of that music - clean, minimalist, honest, classic music.

America is conservative in fundamental principles... but the principles conserved are liberal and some, indeed, are radical.

I kind of cherish at least the idea of Midwestern candor and openness. But I couldn't live there.

Do that which is good, and no harm shall come to thee.

Wherever a beautiful soul has been there is a trail of beautiful memories.

Everybody dies, Sally. The thing is to die well.