Adam Berenson knows how to compose, organize an ensemble, do musical research, play solo and trio piano, write for musical journals, and enlist others to his cause. A very fine musician.

I think all record companies should be run by a musician. Just as you wouldn't trust your health to an electrician.

Now as jazz musicians we're saying for this society, you can free up your imagination. You can proceed in an area without much information and you can function in an area without much information.

I think we've all had enough of Coltrane saxophonists. There's a case of someone ruining a generation of saxophonists, as Louis Armstrong may have ruined a generation of trumpeters.

We can't undo a single thing we have ever done, but we can make decisions today that propel us to the life we want and towards the healing we need.

Life is too short to cower.

Accept your humanness as well as your divinity totally and without reserve.

It's true that I'm drawn to unusual stories. Normal roles don't really attract me.

Hosting a TV show is a full-time job in which success is defined by it never ending.

We've shot with babies and kids and it was tough. It's not easy. It looks tangential, but it is not.

People who learn to control inner experience will be able to determine the quality of their lives, which is as close as any of us can come to being happy.

I love being outdoors and try to work out outside when I can. I spent most of my childhood outdoors.

A stellar, fully-realized collection of stories... grounded, wonderfully, in the river valleys of western Maine. You come away not only understanding a place but the soul of its people.

I try not to think about legacy because it is all ­folly. If you study history, even recent history, you'll find many people who were quite significant in their time but are completely forgotten.