When I was first aware that I couldn't read music I didn't know I couldn't read because I could play the music that was in front of me.

Jazz stands for freedom. It's supposed to be the voice of freedom: Get out there and improvise, and take chances, and don't be a perfectionist - leave that to the classical musicians.

Jazz is about the only form of art existing today in which there is freedom of the individual without the loss of group contact.

Damn it, when I'm bombastic, I have my reasons. I want to be bombastic-take it or leave it.

Kinship doesn't come from skin color. It's in your soul and your mind.

It's like a whole orchestra, the piano for me.

The secret of a great melody is a secret.

I'm always hoping for the nights that are inspired where you almost have an out of body experience

Jazz is about freedom within discipline.

Don't be a perfectionist... leave that to the classical musicians.

We don't know the power that's within our own bodies

If you run fast enough, you can still catch those dreams. Don't give up yet!

Repentance is not merely turning away from your sin but turning to the Lamb who takes away your sin. "Behold, the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world". 1 John 1:29

All bad behavior is really a request for love, attention, or validation.

Every state need not start with state policing if they can't fund it.

I'm teaching myself to believe in things I don't understand, I don't even know if they're true, but that's what dreamers do.

I do hope I play out the contradictions that I feel, all the anxieties and dilemmas. If they're there in the work, then that's brilliant.

I've got a prostate the size of a honeydew and a head full of bad memories.

Lying has a kind of respect and reverence with it. We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him.

As a kid I learned notions of art and notions of not having any money.

It's unacceptable that consumers are punished on their telephone bill simply for crossing a border.