The trumpet is a very violent instrument - probably one of the most archaic of all the modern instruments. It's physically really demanding: you have to stay in pretty good shape.

In New Orleans, you can pitch a rock and hit a great trumpeter.

Creating an environment musically that shows that we all belong together is what I'm interested in doing, and that happened really early on.

Things hurt more when you were alone, that was all.

If you would be Pope you must think of nothing else.

Storms draw something out of us that calm seas don't.

Soon we will plunge ourselves into cold shadows, and all of summer's stunning afternoons will be gone. I already hear the dead thuds of logs below falling on the cobblestones and the lawn.

As an allegorical art, then, photography would represent our desire to fix the transitory, the ephemeral, in a stable and stabilizing image.

And however dark the skies may appear, And however souls may blunder, I tell you it all will work out clear, For good lies over and under.

Why is it that when we talk to God, it's called 'prayer,' but when God speaks to us, it's called schizophrenia?

Let it come, as it will, and don't be afraid. God does not leave us comfortless, so let evening come.

I had always been content to know that there was more in the living world than we could hope to understand.

I'd love to perform with other actors and act with actors, true actors. I would like to be in a movie and have full room for acting.