People are approaching electronic levels in music; although not all of it happens to tickle my fancy

What I came back to is that jazz is a music to be played and not to be intellectualized on.

I'm fascinated with the electronic devices that we can mess around with.

It's true I've always been attracted to the jazz band in an orchestral way, rather than a band way.

Because if you've got the wit, you can make anything into a melody, ultimately.

You can make a saxophone into an electric organ; you can do everything with it

The first reason for starting to do the symphony concerts was to play this new piece of mine.

So I played alto for quite a while until I saved up the money for the baritone

This life of being a transient human being has gotten to a point when it's very hard to bear

People talk about innovations and evolutions and that kind of thing; I don't understand about that nonsense. It's like, all instruments are there to use all the time

In a way, I started out to be a baritone player.

His face had been twisted into an expression of every agony he had imagined for his friend.

Let’s not be too harsh where poets are concerned. They have to live in no-man’s-land, halfway between dreams and reality.

'Civilians' is a term I love. It's what Elizabeth Hurley used to describe people who weren't on TV.

One day in Johannesburg, and already the tribe was being rebuilt, the house and soul being restored.

I think I should be a president. President of the United States.

I realized I was never going to have any peace with myself unless I made an honest stab at trying to write.

Oh, I’m just a happy person.

I always had the sense that nothing was never good enough - striving for perfection. My mother and I had a sort of typical mother-daughter relationship.

If Jesus didn't rise from the dead, an even greater miracle happened: 12 relatively uneducated guys changed the world and were martyred to protect a lie.

What's interesting is the show allows for the awkward pauses to be captured, which makes it stylistically unique, especially for American audiences.