Hipness is not a state of mind, It's a fact of life!

I keep reverting (to Duke Ellington), he to me is the greatest ever and my favorite jazz philosopher, as such.

You don't decide you're hip. It just happens that way.

There's no future without the past and anybody who doesn't really understand where jazz has come from has no right to try to direct where it's going.

Trust is the most important element. By con you can win once and lose forever but with honesty you can win over and over again.

I'm not the same. How could I be the same?

Cosmopolitan critics, men who are the friends of every country save their own.

Arguments of convenience lack integrity and inevitably trip you up.

Nobility of birth commonly abateth industry.

If you can't make freinds with God, make freinds with someone is friends and maybe you'll get invited to the party.

Without the Internet I would have no fans and I wouldn't be in this business. I owe everything to the Internet and my fans.

I always try to have something that keeps my mind relaxed, keeps my mind a little bit off tennis.

Does humanity have a chance to survive lastingly and successfully on planet Earth, and if so, how?

I can endure my own despair, but not another's hope.