A Romantic ideology that predates rock glorifies the self-destructive artist as someone who's too honest and delicate for this world... It's not an easy job, and its stresses can take their toll.

Wynton Marsalis' skills have grown as fast as his ambition, and he is the most ambitious younger composer in Jazz.

Artists are perceptive, but they choose to write songs or make movies or paint pictures rather than simply keeping private diaries.

Hearing Marilyn Crispell play solo piano is like monitoring an active volcano. She is one of a very few pianists who rise to the challenge of free jazz.

Baikida Carroll, whose balance of bravada and tenderness, facility and understatement mark him as a player to be reckoned with.

[Loco De Amor is] a euphoric, melodic romp across the hemisphere... A joyful, fun musician's record from a really good guitarist

Solitude is the measure through which you could concentrate on using your time.

People are prettiest when they smile with joy.

Man's love is of man's life a thing apart, 'Tis woman's whole existence.

Integrity simply means a willingness not to violate one's identity.

I find languages that support just one programming paradigm constraining

Empty me of the selfishness inside, every vain ambition and the poison of my pride, and any foolish thing my heart holds to, Lord empty me of me so I can be filled with you.

Christianity without discipleship is always Christianity without Christ.

No wonder he has such nice teeth. They probably pay him in dental floss.

Our spirituality lies in wholeness.

See, you have to marry me. I seem to scare off all the help.