The French - they like jazz, theyve been on jazz a long time.

Because the stuff that they feed kids now, they'll have a bunch of idiots in the next millennium as far as art and culture is concerned.

The Japanese actually approach the music on a high level. It's always been on a high level.

You know the drum was the first instrument besides the human voice.

If I couldn't do it, then I'd be defeated. I've got the tools to do it. I never did question my tools.

If somebody would come and they're not playing music, they would encounter certain people on another level.

Jazz needs the help. It's the more sophisticated music. All the other music is on the TV, but jazz isn't.

Theres so much beautiful music in the world, and the kids are getting robbed.

It's something that - jazz is one of the few things that you can go and listen to, I don't care where you're from, what you are, what background you come from - there's something there for you.

I might have played a little bit more in Europe than I have in Japan.

I enjoy seeing young people being interested in what they can do.

What looks like enjoyment is the sneer of contempt. That's not a smile.

There is ebb and flow. Leaving and coming. Flight and fall. Sing and silent. Reaching and reached.

I sing my song for a living, and I don't really worry about who listens or what they think. But it seems to make a living.

I am the young, edgy New Yorker.

People in the fashion industry have used the press a lot more than people in the film industry, because you have nothing to sell except for the image: The image is everything.

My uncle is a Southern planter. He's an undertaker in Alabama.

I gave up shame a long time ago.

Stupidity,--unconscious ignorance.

It is the place of renewal and of safety, where for a little while there will be no harm or attack and, while every sense is nourished, the soul rests.

A film goes through so many hands, that by the time it's done, it might not resemble what you thought you were making.