We play melodic music, we play songs, we play all kinds of things and when you improvise you don't just shut out different languages, you use all the languages that you have.

As an improviser I'm now pretty comfortable with trios, so I'm thinking of working up to quartets.

There's an awful lot of resources that can be drawn upon in an improvised music concert.

Improvised music involves a lot of intuition and I like developing intuition.

I think that one of the things that influences me most as a composer is to what extent I can deconstruct and reconstruct the material that I'm working with.

It's like learning a language; you can't speak a language fluently until you find out who you are in that language, and that has as much to do with your body as it does with vocabulary and grammar.

If you write songs you have an idea how they're going to sound.

I remember playing football dressed in peculiar costumes with some friends in France and laughing so hard we couldn't even stand up, let alone kick the ball.

I don't know if I'm striving for anything that I can put into words.

If you mean do I use the guitar when I'm sitting at home writing stuff, then basically no, never. All I would ever write would be stuff that my fingers easily fall into.

Well, I think music for kids is never anything but experimental is it?

For Sleeping or Jumping couldn’t be a better band name at a better time in music.

Envy was just the tax you paid on success.

Some people ask me, Do they put aging makeup on you? It's just this very nice street makeup.

Before I started modeling, I had never been out of the country, and now I feel like I'm out of the country at least a few times a month, if not once a week.

All nature, then, as self-sustained, consists Of twain of things: of bodies and of void In which they're set, and where they're moved around.

In times of tragedies, our duty is to lend a helping hand to those in grief and thus light lamps of kindness and compassion.

We walk through so many myths of each other and ourselves; we are so thankful when someone sees us for who we are and accepts us.

I believe you can have a much better life if you are true to your core self, and therefore guided by love and intuitive inner knowing.

A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace.