I've had experiences where people say, 'I hated jazz before I heard you guys!' I'm like, 'You didn't hate jazz before you heard us, you hated the idea of jazz.'

People have been starving for intellectual fodder, but the best way to get people to close their eyes and not say anything is to tell them that they're not smart enough to comprehend.

Jazz is like a telescope, and a lot of other music is like a microscope.

I used to play until 4 o'clock in the morning.My dad would go nuts - he'd scream and say the cops are gonna come and break our instruments.

You matter, Mama repeated. Not because of whose son you are. Because of who you are. You're as important as every other human being that ever was or ever will be. Everyone matters.

Not that believing such things has anything to do with whether they are true. You see that, don't you?

Health is the greatest strength.

Some people say Earth is the bottom level of Purgatory.' She pointed toward the floor and frowned.'I call it the top floor of Hell.

God, you smell good. Your pheromones are a definite mating call to mine.

The great thing to learn about life is first not to do what you don't want to do and second to do what you do want to do.

Choke me in the shallow water before I get too deep.

God cannot save them from fools.

Even if we cannot be completely non-voilent, by being vegetarian we are going in the direction of non-voilence

My personal feeling is that understanding evolution led me to atheism.