People tend to want to follow the beaten path. The difficulty is that the beaten path doesn't seem to be leading anywhere.

Most of us are honest all the time, and all of us are honest most of the time.

The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.

Science is the only religion of mankind.

When you think about a composer you know like Wagner or Pier Boulez or something like that most of the issues a composer is working with are about discreet, notated music that someone else will play.

Saints and ordinary folks are the same from the start. Inquiring about a difference is like asking to borrow string when you've got a good strong rope. Every Dharma is known in the heart.

Everyone pretty much acknowledges that he's the man, and I still feel that underrates him.

Everything in life influences my music.

We will not conquer our obstacles by running away from them. Speed does not matter, just that we do not stop.

I am the guy dressing up in, you know, the caveman outfit for the kids birthday parties.

I don't separate one era of jazz from another, because I listen to everybody... Everybody takes from everybody else and adds their own thing and goes on from there.

When we see the wholeness of being born, living, and dying, there is a joy in living and a grace in dying.