My dad would play me all of these records: Miles Davis records, John Coltrane records, Bill Evans records, a lot of jazz records. My first exposure to music was listening to jazz records.

Music is a thing where, the more vocabulary you gather, the more you can express yourself.

The main thing about the word jazz, is that it's very limiting to what people are doing.

My mom was a musician, and my dad had this passion for music. That's kind of how a lot of their relationship was built. When I came around, I was constantly exposed to music.

I had an opportunity to start going around the world when I was about 18 years old. So, I did. That's one of the things that I was doing.

When I was four, I started taking lessons from my mom. That's pretty much how I started.

Hearing Oscar Peterson was something that resonated within me. There are so many musicians I've been fortunate to play with. The people that inspire me are the people I play with.

Talking to strangers sounded like talking to no one, which Henry had some firsthand experience in- in real life. It was lonely. Almost as lonely as Lake View Cemetery, where he'd buried Ethel.

Is it not enough to dip your tongue into my soul and write poetry?

The ballot is stronger than the bullet.

If something is good, you must torture it mercilessly until it is either dead or great.

My fear, as an American, is that our own actions are going to contribute to an inspiration for terrorists to want to harm us or kill us.

The networks have a particular agenda, a particular model and structure. It doesn't have anything to do with content. This is not a dis on them - they are a business model, run by business people.

I have no useful theories about love and marriage.

I'm very shy in a crowd.

You weren't able to talk sense into him?" Well, we kind of tried to kill each other in a duel to the death." I see. You tried the diplomatic approach.

We draw our strength from the battle. From our greatest conflicts come our greatest victories.