By and large, jazz has always been like the kind of a man you wouldn't want your daughter to associate with.

There are 2 rules in life: Number 1- Never quit Number2- Never forget rule number 1.

Music, of course, is what I hear and something that I more or less live by. It's not an occupation or profession, it's a compulsion.

A problem is a chance for you to do your best.

There are two kinds of music. Good music, and the other kind.

The most important thing I look for in a musician is whether he knows how to listen.

If you have a great band with a mediocre drummer, you have a mediocre band. If you have a mediocre band with a great drummer, you have a great band!

Everyone prays in their own language, and there is no language that God does not understand.

You have to stop listening in categories. The music is either good or it's bad.

I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.

Love is supreme and unconditional; like is nice but limited.

Fifties advertising was a dogmatic art, to the point of pretending to be a science.

Coolidge's stat was so low; he's ranked in the bottom half of presidents. What I found when I encountered this man was the leader I might like to see today.

I've been too productive for too long, and despite what anybody wants to strip away from me, I am influential. I am.

Football is all I know.

If you did not care at all what anyone else thought about you, what would you do differently or change in your life?

From Maya Angelou I began to believe that I, too, someday, could be a writer, and I also learned how tortuous it can be to be in possession of a unique voice.

I think I have every piece of music Bob Marley ever made.

I was a bit of a troubled kid growing up, let's put it that way. I didn't take pleasure in hard work.

I used to think of that line in Allen Ginsberg's 'Howl', about the 'sad cup of coffee'.. ..I have had cold coffee and hot coffee and lousy coffee, But I've never had a sad cup of coffee.

I bought a house in LA, hanging out there and spending a lot of time in Toronto, but not much.