You play ensemble things that you had no idea you were going to play two minutes before.

Jazz is neither specific repertoire, nor academic exercise... but a way of life.

The way we look at it, everything is a sound.

Play as well as you can all the time, and if you're truthful to your thing, you'll succeed.

We're just beginning to learn the importance of music in our society.

Many times you never know what's going to happen. You'll play songs that you never thought you were going to play.

I always tell my students when you're going to be a jazz musician the first thing you've got to do is be a professional musician, and that means you have to feed yourself with the instrument.

A chord is just the name of a sound.

We just can't go and try to turn the clock back, that's not happening anymore. You've got to figure something else out.

The music we play is kind of hard to explain. It's music that we really feel.

It's just about really being sensitive, and trying to play a music that is about music.

Eleanor hated it when her mom acted like that. Relentlessly submissive. It was humiliatng to be in the same room.

There are kids who get on a BMX bike when they're eight years old and they go, 'Whoa, this is incredible, ' and grow up to do extreme sports. It's the same for me with acting.

Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.

it seems to me that later on neither I nor anyone else will be interested in the musings of a thirteen-year-old schoolgirl.

You can't be invisible being Asian. You can't say "Hi, I'm white!"

Religion is made up of unrestrained wishes.

But come here, Fear. / I am alive! / And you are so afraid / of dying.

Everybody's looking at me But it's alright I like attention The clubs not hot until I walk through They stop and stare and watch me move Like damn I like that I'm sexy and you know it.

When you stand in the present moment, you are timeless.

But I am a just man, even to my enemy - and I will acknowledge, beforehand, that they are cleverer brains than I thought them