I compose my pieces with a formula that I created myself.

Whatever you think can’t be done, somebody will come along and do it. A genius is the one most like himself.

I say, play your own way. Don't play what the public want - you play what you want and let the public pick up on what you doing - even if it does take them fifteen, twenty years.

Sometimes it's to your advantage for people to think you're crazy

The loudest noise in the world is silence.

There are no wrong notes; some are just more right than others.

Trying to explain music is like trying to dance architecture.

Jazz is freedom. You think about that.

Don't play everything (or every time); let some things go by... What you don't play can be more important than what you do.

Jazz is my adventure. I'm after new chords, new ways of syncopating, new figures, new runs. How to use notes differently. That's it. Just using notes differently.

The only cats worth anything are the cats that take chances.

Perfect bliss, from just the thought of you next to me.

Travel is the most private of pleasures. There is no greater bore than the travel bore. We do not in the least want to hear what he has seen in Hong Kong.

You know, as I've grown older, my ideas about sin have changed. I used to believe that sins were things you did, but I don't think that now. I think sins are what you ignore.

I knew with Snape I was working as a double agent, as it turns out, and a very good one at that.

Fantasy is toxic: the private cruelty and the world war both have their start in the heated brain.

All children, except one, grow up.

Let's share our abundance and make our country stronger.

You know those goals you've set for yourself, those dreams you've been waiting for the perfect time to live out? It's time!

I made my first film on 16mm. Then I began using 35mm.Then I began working in Hollywood. And I began to really understand how films were made by professionals. I have to say I wasn't very impressed.

The Lord always grants more than what he has been asked: you ask him to remember you, and he brings you into his Kingdom!