Jazz is the art of thinking out loud.

Creative thinking inspires ideas. Ideas inspire change.

Be drawn to the visual arts for it can expand your imagination.

Jazz can be a blank canvas full of possibilities.

Jazz vision is a wordless conversation between musical notes and visual expressions.

Jazz vision for me is seeing my art in musical term. It offers me an visual expressions in an ever-changing musical palette.

Creativity is not being afraid to be different. It takes madness to jump at an idea that no one else believes in.

Ideas come through us, not from us.

Imagination needs to be fed.

I discovered the miracle that all things that sound are music, including the dishes and silverware in the dishwasher, as long as they fulfill the illusion of showing us where life is heading.

Hearts melt when the Beloved of Allah is mentioned.

What then are doing if not creating a better place together? I think, for me the key has to be, what do I want to create? What is it I want to leave behind?

The academy awards in England; it's a classy affair as well.

Why compare yourself with others? No one in the entire world can do a better job of being you than you.

We seldom break our leg so long as life continues a toilsome upward climb. The danger comes when we begin to take things easily and choose the convenient paths.

If you have an idea of what you want to do in your future, you must go at it with almost monastic obsession. [...] You have to go at it single-mindedly and let nothing get in your way.

The soul that walks in love neither tires others nor grows tired.

But alas! Science cannot now rescue us, for even the scientist is lost in the terrible midnight of our age. Indeed, science gave us the very instruments that threaten to bring universal suicide.

This Love has whispered secrets in your ear that don't make sense to anybody else. You know who You are. You are the shining star.