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

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.

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

I could feel the bite of the autumn air, warning us all of the harsh winter that was on its way.

New Beginnings are in order, and you are bound to feel some level of excitement as new chances come your way.

Sure, climbing Mount Everest would be cool, but that's something I would now like to do as a family. Big experiences like that I don't want to have on my own anymore. I want to share them.

I don't like food that's too carefully arranged; it makes me think that the chef is spending too much time arranging and not enough time cooking. If I wanted a picture I'd buy a painting.

The modern artist must live by craft and violence. His gods are violent gods. Those artists, so called, whose work does not show this strife, are uninteresting.

Nobody is such an individualist as the man who advocates equality.

Vampires!!! What a time to be caught without a turtleneck!

Virtue and vice are concepts invented by human beings, words for a morality which human beings arbitrarily devised.

Chase excellence, success will follow

A good half of the effort of understanding what the Indian philosophers were after - and their subtleties make most of the great European philosophers look like schoolboys.