To me, jazz is a place where anything is possible.

There's so much music out there & so many possibilities. I like anyone who plays any instrument.

It's incredible how one song or even one little phrase or just a few notes, if you really concentrate on it, can be a kaleidoscope of possibility.

Music doesn't hurt anybody, that's what's amazing. Everything is in there, every kind of human emotion, from the darkest to the lightest. And it has power. Unbelievable power.

Every time I play with someone, not just a new person, but someone I've been with all along, that's where I really learn.

There's always this sound out there that's just a little beyond my reach & that just sort of keeps me going.

I love listening to other musicians and seeing what they do to gain their distinctive respective sounds and edge.

I hate labels; the problem is that if you say you're one thing, it's hard for people to imagine you as something else. Music is way more complicated than that.

First I was a European-style player, then I was a downtown 'noise guy,' and now some people call me an Americana guy.

I spend a lot of time copying saxophone players and trumpet players.

I can write the stuff and play it myself and have something in my head, but the best feeling is when somebody else plays it and they're hearing something other than what I'm hearing.

She is too absorbed in the difficulties of being seventeen to want to hear the confusions of forty-four.

Ingmar Bergman had a great sense of humor, and he had a very special, characteristic laugh that you always recognized - if he went to watch a theater show, 'Ah! He is here tonight.'

Our heavily meat-centered culture is at the very heart of our waste of the earth's productivity.

I just want to live my life the best way I can and enjoy the moment that I have off the court because you need to find a good balance. I think this is very important.

The lucky few who can be involved in creative work of any sort will be the true elite of mankind, for they alone will do more than serve a machine.

A lot of comedians are selfish.

The object of love is the best and most beautiful. Try to live up to it.

I like the black and white movies on AMC.

Great teachers will never be able to make up for bad parents, nor should they be expected to.

The quality of a man's life is in direct proportion to his commitment to excellence.