Do not categorize about music. You take each musician at the time and open yourself to that musician.

I always wanted to be a lawyer,but I certainly never wanted to be a trapeze performer.

There is a seamless web to life.. all life is sacred.

I think Obama is possibly the most dangerous and destructive president we have ever had

A lot of people in the adult population have a very limited idea as to why they are Americans, why we have a First Amendment or a Bill of Rights.

I was introduced to jazz, and that's become a basic concern and passion of mine ever since.

My parents were Orthodox Jews but not very regular Orthodox Jews. I was bar mitzvahed and all that. But God was hardly ever mentioned in my family. Franklin D. Roosevelt was.

The media ignores what is really going on.

I would bet there is no place in the United States where the First Amendment would survive intact.

What we have now in America is a surveillance society.

We live in the village. We have a summer place in Westport, Connecticut. We don't spend a lot on all kinds of things. But I have no complaints.

My favorite part is the preparation because you read on the page, you get this character.

The poet sees things as they look. Is this having a faculty the less? or a sense the more?

Cooking is for capturing the taste of the food and then enhancing it, as a composer may take a theme and then delight us with his variations.

The minority of one generation is usually the majority of the next.

Get inside information from the president and you will probably lose half of your money. If you get it from the chairman of the board, you will lose all of it.

The real rub is finding that authentic self and it's not something that's going to come to you overnight.

In the current socio-political climate, he said to himself, committing suicide is absurd and redundant. Better to become an undercover poet.

Politics is about moving forward, looking forward.

I am ashamed of my master and not of my servitude.

It's important for all people, and not just people in bands, to speak out on social justice issues. That means journalists or plumbers have just as much of a responsibility to do that as artists.