Music should go right through you, leave some of itself inside you, and take some of you with it when it leaves.

Art leaves something to the listener; that's what separates art from craft.

If you go back to the roots of jazz, it was all about COLLECTIVE improvisation.

Your eyes, they shine so brightI wanna save that lightI can't escape this nowUnless you show me how

If you walk out of the house and think you feel great, or if someone tells you that you look amazing, believe it and just say thank you.

When we feel that we are not sufficiently respected, we should ask ourselves whether we are living as we should.

Our greatest duty and our main responsibility is to help others. But please, if you can't help them, would you please not hurt them.

I got hooked up with the NBA Nation and the next thing I knew I was judging the Sprite Slam Dunk Showdown. They needed somebody who can travel on the weekends and go up to eight different cities.

It is probably always disastrous not to be a poet.

The ancient saying, "There is nothing in the intellect which was not first in some way in the senses," and senses being explorers of the world, opens the way to knowledge.

On my recent trip to the Mexico border, Border Patrol agents in California told me they have arrested the same coyotes 20 times, but they are not prosecuted.

As a basketball fan, I get sick and tired of people talking about numbers. To me, the world is getting too materialistic.

I'm dramatically underexposed. I demand more attention!