It's important to let each artist do what makes him or her feel comfortable. Success should be a by-product of that.

The whole rise of new adult contemporary music and smooth jazz was a nice surprise.

I practice my saxophone three hours a day. I'm not saying I'm particularly special, but if you do something three hours a day for forty years, you get pretty good at it.

I really create everything I do from the heart.

I think everybody has to kind of decide what the word 'jazz' means to them, and that's fine.

What is music anyway? It's a form of communication, and that's why I play the kind of music that I think - that I hope - can communicate with people.

Maybe the biggest thing that I've learned musically is that anything is possible. Things can work when maybe they don't seem like they can.

I approach everything in my life the same way; if it feels right, I know it.

I've learned that you simply can't control those bad vibes.

Just figure out what you think jazz is, and then if it fits into that category, it's jazz, and if it doesn't, it isn't. It's no big deal.

I learned so much about playing and touring being on the road and in the studio with Jeff, but I'd always played a lot of gigs in Seattle even prior to joining the Fusion.

I do have a childlike enthusiasm at times. I certainly enjoy life and get pleasure sometimes in childish things.

Even at the end of a presidential election campaign, we have no way to know what Mitt Romney really believes.

Charity has always been a expression of the guilty consciences of a ruling class.

I thought it was too wacky for the general public. On his original opinion of his movie's chances for success, 1997.

Our view of nature will influence the way we treat nature, and our view of human nature will affect our understanding of human responsibility.

Their 'magic' is Art, delivered from many of its human limitations.

Show me a person who sees himself negatively and I will show you a person who sees others in a negative way.

I didn't come from a household where my mother dragged me outside and said, "You'd better fight." My mother wouldn't let me fight. I was not an aggressive kid.

...[Cabeza de Vaca] ceased to be lost not by returning but by turning into something else.

The foundation of a disciplined life is integrity and doing what we say we're going to do.