I'm an old-timer in the business from the sense that when you do something that you feel good about there might be another person out there who feels the same way, or a hundred or a couple million.

Clifford Brown was in the jazz circles considered to be probably the greatest trumpet player who ever lived.

We always felt that if you do something with quality and integrity, then it's going to come back to you.

Instrumental music can spread the international language.

I was taken in by the bravado and the sounds of Mexico... not so much the music, but the spirit.

I like to listed to the adventurous guys - the Coltranes, Miles Davis, the guys who just let it loose.

I wake up in the morning, I do a little stretching exercises, pick up the horn and play.

I think we as human beings need to be able to appreciate each other's differences and I think jazz really takes us in that direction.

I'm seduced by the arts in general. Arts is like the power of now.

There's something interesting about playing live; you're in the moment, and I think it would be beneficial.

I play every day. It's like a habit for me now. I just, if I don't play, I kind of miss - something's off.

Don't ever let anyone tell you that things can't be changed, that things can't be done. The can and they will, if we are united in what we believe.

One's mind has a way of making itself up in the background and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do.

I recall my mum tried to teach me how to fry chicken once, and I almost burned down half the kitchen... I don't think I have the patience for cooking.

Sometimes I just don't have time to wait for the muse to come, so I've developed things to force the muse to come back.

[Andrea] Leadsom has compassion ... a real steel and a real determination and that velvet glove of compassion that she really cares about people.

Heroism is not to be won at the point of a pen.

You couldn't hurt a fly." Actually I was pretty good at pinging flies right out of the air, but I tried to look appropriately harmless.

I think narcissists are endlessly watchable. The way they view the world and the way they interact within the world.

Even though it's hard to believe, but people who know me really well know I'm shy. I have to go past that fear.

Differences in experience, points of view and opinions aren't what pulls us apart. It's what pulls us together.