That's why I haven't been so anxious. But now, lots of people write and say, 'I want to find out what you're doing.' So I know that this book will enlighten them.

It was when I found out I could make mistakes that I knew I was on to something.

Jazz is the only music in which the same note can be played night after night but differently each time.

When I have them working together, it's like a beautiful kaleidoscope.

For me, being an innovator doesn't mean being more intelligent, more rich, it's not a word, it's an action.

The idea is more important than the style you're playing in.

You don't have to worry about being a number one, number two, or number three. Numbers don't have anything to do with placement. Numbers only have something to do with repetition.

I don't try to please when I play. I try to cure.

Music has many uses and I think the most perfected use that music has is one of a healing quality.

Whatever you do, it's over when you do it - but first you have to do it.

We in the Western world suffer from too many categories and classes; we've forgotten that we all still have diapers on. We've separated music from life.

The quality of time you dedicate to work is what determines your greatness.

Religion helps humanity to pass through its darkest times.

That sun, that light had faded, and she had faded with them. Now she was as grey as the season itself.

I travel for the jolting, angelic act of seeking strangeness and newness and profoundness.

You should never be satisfied with a little if you are capable of using and enjoying more.

I always let the characters guide the stories. They really let me know what they want to say and what action they want to happen.

There is no substitute for milk. Sorry.

America is incredibly professional and corporate.

The key is not to worry about being successful, but to instead to work toward being significant - and the success will naturally follow.

I have a face I cannot show, I make the rules up as I go.