I always try to think of a vocabulary to match different musical situations.

If you listen to nature, all the sounds are done in a confident way. I'm trying to do that.

I remember times when the whole music scene was just flourishing.

I like to hear melodies that go from one extreme to the next- saxophone to a bell to a whistle, for instance.

I'm approaching a period in my life though where I'd like to be totally absorbed into music, doing concerts, writing something. Basically, that IS what I am doing.

I've always been interested in shaping music in odd ways, with odd riffs and that's been probably something that I've continued on with my studies with improvisation as I'm working with people.

You have to know composition to be a good improviser.

I don't like to box myself in when I'm composing.

For two days I went about my business. I travelled the globe as always, handing souls to the conveyor belt of eternity.

Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief

Connection was always enough. Not touching. Not talking. Just a feeling that in the world your not alone.

...from schools to universities to research institutes, we teach about origins in disconnected fragments. We seem incapable of offering a unified account of how things came to be the way they are.

Try first thyself, and after call in God; For to the worker God himself lends aid.

As we all learned from the sorry experience of state-sanctioned bureaucracies in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union, decentralization in education is crucial to both freedom and excellence.

I have a pretty wide range of musical tastes.

Without game, men prey on each other.

Women particularly can dress modestly and in the process contribute to their own self­ respect and to the moral purity of men. In the end, most women get the type of man they dress for.

There's no peace like the peace of an inner courtyard on a sunny day.