Jazz has the ability to absorb & transform influences from diverse musical styles.

Many an American jazz musician has been beguiled by the lush melodies and sumptuous rhythms of Brazilian music, but Peter Sprague has taken the romance a good deal further than most.

I don’t respect my husband because he is the man and I am the woman, and it’s my “place” to submit to him. I respect Dan because he is a good person, and because he has made me a better person too.

If you can kill animals, the same attitude can kill human beings. The mentality is the same which exploits nature and which creates wars.

Don't let the urgent take the place of the important in your life... When you and I were putting out the fires of the urgent, the important was again left in a holding pattern.

Conservatives say a lot about wanting the government stay out of our lives and businesses. We need to make sure the government stays out of our uteruses.

I don't just want the belt, I want every one of their heads on a plate.

...governments, including free and democratic governments, are not really friendly to freedom and democracy. They abhor any rule of law that limits their powers and penchant for social engineering.

People constantly make pop-culture references. That's why it's called popular culture, because people are aware of it and reference it constantly.

By the time you know what to do, you're too old to do it.

It's fear, Jack. The man deals with a huge amount of fear.' Because he got hurt?' No, not entirely. Fear comes with imagination, it's a penalty, it's the price of imagination.

In my mind, I always think of myself as an underdog type.