And if I have a strong point, it's that I like to believe it's not cheap or schmaltzy sentimentality.

Well, being a jazz musician is not a rose garden!

The harmonica is a great instrument.

You can be in Tokyo or Alberta at four in the morning in your hotel and you can still practice if you feel like it. A trombone cannot do that at four in the morning.

Jazz is very much alive. Everywhere I go there's a new generation of musicians playing Jazz music.

My parents had a pub and each Sunday there was an accordionist. They have told me that when I was in my cradle, I already was imitating the gestures of the musician.

My father bought me a little cardboard accordion, and when I was three I got this little machine.

Faith doesn't have to be much. Not any bigger than a mustard seed... That small. Only that much faith you'll need in me, God says, because I am so big. I am the Great I Am. So have faith in me.

The time you spend loving is the most valuable time.

Perhaps the crime situation would be improved if we could get more cops off television and onto the streets.

Martyrdom is the only path to immortality that requires no talent whatsoever.

The greatest stimulator of my running career was fear.

If I died tomorrow I've accomplished what I set out to do in my life. I enjoy making my movies, I enjoy doing what I do. I have a nice life.

Tis the only discipline we are born for; all studies else are but as circular lines, and death the center where they all must meet.

There's no point of having faith if you have evidence.

The only thing about my life that's really changed is the fact that a lot of people know me now. I'm still the same person.