Actually, when I was very young, first starting to play, I think I probably listened more to clarinet players than to saxophones.

What I came back to is that jazz is a music to be played and not to be intellectualized on.

I'm fascinated with the electronic devices that we can mess around with.

It's true I've always been attracted to the jazz band in an orchestral way, rather than a band way.

Because if you've got the wit, you can make anything into a melody, ultimately.

You can make a saxophone into an electric organ; you can do everything with it

The first reason for starting to do the symphony concerts was to play this new piece of mine.

So I played alto for quite a while until I saved up the money for the baritone

This life of being a transient human being has gotten to a point when it's very hard to bear

People talk about innovations and evolutions and that kind of thing; I don't understand about that nonsense. It's like, all instruments are there to use all the time

In a way, I started out to be a baritone player.

Plenty of people who survive tragedies end up ambivalent about danger--frightened by it, yet strangely drawn to it.

Pursue your dreams with all your strength.

I prefer being totally sober myself.

The thing about the truth is that it exists outside of belief. Even if nobody believes it, that thing is still true.

Unless the U.N. is completely reorganized without the Communist nations in it, we should get out of it.

We should focus more on the things we've accomplished, but I mean, obviously Syria disturbs me greatly and I'm not happy with where Syria is.

I made the intentional choice to step behind the camera.

There are no ugly ducklings.

A lie can make it half way around the world before the truth has time to put its boots on.

God sends rain, but He also sends hoods; and when the rain grows heavier, He sends a cave.