Don't be afraid, just play the music.

Don't play the saxophone. Let it play you.

Master your instrument. Master the music. And then forget all that bullshit and just play.

You've got to learn your instrument. Then, you practice, practice, practice. And then, when you finally get up there on the bandstand, forget all that and just wail.

Once I could play what I heard inside me, that's when I was born.

I don't care who likes it or buys it. Because if you use that criterion, Mozart would never have written Don Giovanni, Charlie Parker would have never played anything but swing music.

If you don't live it, it won't come out your horn.

I realized by using the high notes of the chords as a melodic line, and by the right harmonic progression, I could play what I heard inside me. That's when I was born.

Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom.

They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art.

Man, there's no boundary line to art!

If their horoscopes are not compatible, this marriage is out of the question.

Evil spawns mayhem while benevolence repairs

When I grow up I want to be an old woman.

I always wanted my photographs to challenge the status quo, to contest the kinds of images that existed in popular culture.

I like to set realistic goals for myself, not outrageous ones.

Show business can be an addiction. ... An audience would laugh at me one night, and I would chase that high for another three months.

If I'm writing, I'll say something metaphorical or approximate, whereas scientists are very precise.

People really want to see what I'm up to, and that's crazy. It's a really lovely feeling. It's kind of scary, but a good scary. It's a lovely position to be in.

Though it may not seem like it, I never try to write about a place, per se; it's always, first and last, about story. Story is everything. Story and a bit of attitude.

She hopes for nothing except fine weather and a resolution. She wants to end properly, like a good sentence.