There's something interesting about playing live; you're in the moment, and I think it would be beneficial.

Clifford Brown was in the jazz circles considered to be probably the greatest trumpet player who ever lived.

We always felt that if you do something with quality and integrity, then it's going to come back to you.

Instrumental music can spread the international language.

I was taken in by the bravado and the sounds of Mexico... not so much the music, but the spirit.

I like to listed to the adventurous guys - the Coltranes, Miles Davis, the guys who just let it loose.

I wake up in the morning, I do a little stretching exercises, pick up the horn and play.

I think we as human beings need to be able to appreciate each other's differences and I think jazz really takes us in that direction.

I'm seduced by the arts in general. Arts is like the power of now.

I play every day. It's like a habit for me now. I just, if I don't play, I kind of miss - something's off.

I don't think radio is selling records like they used to. They'd hawk the song and hawk the artist and you'd get so excited, you'd stop your car and go into the nearest record store.

May i could Alive if my heart was broken But it has been murdered

All I ever wanted to do was act. And pay my bills

Americans are so emotionally fragile that soon we will have to be carried around in plastic bubbles and fed with an eye-dropper.

A full bosom is actually a millstone around a woman's neck.

Watch lest prosperity destroy generosity.

If it hurts me, it must hurt the other ones twice as much.

I get the worst compliments all the time. 'Oh you're Asian? I love orange chicken.'

Now that I'm a political pundit, I have the ability to influence people.

So I delegate a lot and I make my family come first, my husband and our kids.