Instrumental music is increasingly marginalized and there's just no outlet, there's no venue for it, in terms of media.

Instrumental music is increasingly marginalized.

Its all about finding the right note at the right place and knowing when to leave well enough alone. And that's a lifelong quest.

I look at the artistic process as like experiencing the world, channeling it through your personality and sending it back out there. That's the process.

Music is just kind of an expression of who I am. It's what I do.

You never get it figured out. You just keep playing.

I tend to play in a way that feels natural to me. To me that's authentic for myself. I play by where I'm led by some sense of where I feel I'm supposed to be.

When I make records, I never listen to stuff after it's done. Ever.

Ninety-nine percent of the music that was of any interest to me when I was growing up came out of the black community.

To me, the object of practicing is to allow you to play what you hear. But you're always hearing new things, so you never get to the end of it.

I'll just sit at the piano a lot an play like through different chord exercises and kind of just throwing my hands down on the piano from one chord to the next to see what happens.

To find love is the great human undertaking...and it's always complicated by our compulsions and unconscious patterns, to say nothing of issues of trust and control.

Before Michael Caine you had to have been in the RAF to be an actor.

Fortune makes him fool, whom she makes her darling.

Mostly the subject of the photograph, which can be anyone really, coming down the street - someone that has no idea. "Heroism" in photography, just like in a novel, is for everyone.

My perspective on my mother has changed immensely. She was a lot taller when I was younger.

Clout is something some seem to have-until they try exercising it.

Let our friends perish, provided that our enemies fall at the same time.

Work is something you can count on, a trusted, lifelong friend who never deserts you.

We who must die demand a miracle. How could the Eternal do a temporal act, The Infinite become a finite fact? Nothing can save us that is possible: We who must die demand a miracle.

Enjoying life is far superior to being graded on your performance in life.