I consider myself very fortunate. I have a beautiful wife who supports my work and is raising our daughter when I'm out on the road.

The audience should feel they are hearing the future, that is arriving just on time.

My strength is to communicate with an audience and to know what jazz singing is capable of.

You don't know what bravery is until you overcome fear.

I travel all the time. And as I go around the world, I try to learn a little something and not just take up all the available air.

The more you teach your people to not need you, the greater your value.

Some people are monogamous from the get-go while other date as many people as possible until you have "that conversation." Have the conversation at the start so that everyone is clear.

We have to walk slowly and carefully because we are in a hurry.

You have the same DNA as the greats of the past who started revivals.

A lot of times the characters I play tend to be kind of loners or they don't have best friends or best buddies.

May all beings learn how to nourish themselves with joy each day.

The first thing that struck me on landing in America was that if the Americans are not the most well-dressed people in the world, they are the most comfortably dressed.

Space--as landscape, terrain, spectacle, experience--has vanished.

What I think I've been able to do well over the years is play with pain, play with problems, play in all sorts of conditions.

I don't like when people dress intentionally ugly. Personally that's not my thing.