Miles'd got killed if he hit me.

Whatever you think can’t be done, somebody will come along and do it. A genius is the one most like himself.

I say, play your own way. Don't play what the public want - you play what you want and let the public pick up on what you doing - even if it does take them fifteen, twenty years.

Sometimes it's to your advantage for people to think you're crazy

The loudest noise in the world is silence.

There are no wrong notes; some are just more right than others.

Trying to explain music is like trying to dance architecture.

Jazz is freedom. You think about that.

Don't play everything (or every time); let some things go by... What you don't play can be more important than what you do.

Jazz is my adventure. I'm after new chords, new ways of syncopating, new figures, new runs. How to use notes differently. That's it. Just using notes differently.

The only cats worth anything are the cats that take chances.

It may be that you are settled in another place it may be that you are happy but the one who took your heart wields final power.

Focus on your relationship with God, make doing His wills your priority and together with Him you will be the head and not the tail

Eating more consciously now feels like a way of being. I actually think about how my food got to my plate.

It's my honor to read Hitler's quotes.

Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne.

I'm going to outplay you. That's the mentality I have, and you should want to outplay me.

I have never been particularly impressed by the self centered musings of my fellow writers.

How many writers are there... who, breaking up their subject into details, destroy its life, and defraud us of the whole by their anxiety about the parts.

Many poor and low-income women cannot afford to purchase contraceptive services and supplies on their own.

Carnal lust rules where there is no love of God.