My roots and Victor's are jazz, basically, but these two young fellows that we have with us come out of rock bands. And they're tremendously exciting players.

But you can't extend, or go beyond any point musically, without the basic fundamentals.

I don't dig staying in one groove.

Personally, I can't see how anyone can produce any beautiful music out of being angry.

And I'm happy to say that I'm able to find people wherever I go that are not black, not white - they're just human beings. That's where I am, where I've been and where I intend to stay.

For the last five years I've been in the production business.

I mean, there's a hell of a lot of grounds for protest, but you don't do it through music.

Musicians have to suffer to a certain degree in order to obtain their outlet.

Luckily, I'm in the position now of being able to play purely because I have the desire to do so.

May you find the courage to be grateful for every circumstance.

Anyone who believes what a cat tells him deserves all he gets.

Speech is human nature itself, with none of the artificiality of written language.

I get up 5:30-6 every morning. I'm in the gym. I run a couple miles.

There is indeed, perhaps, no better way to hold communion with the sea than sitting in the sun on the veranda of a fishermen's café

There are exceptional people out there who are capable of starting epidemics. All you have to do is find them.

Everything that rises must converge.

It is so important for me to try, and having tried I look back on failure and success as if it were all the same.

Entities should not be posited unnecessarily.