Creative thinking inspires ideas. Ideas inspire change.

Be drawn to the visual arts for it can expand your imagination.

Jazz can be a blank canvas full of possibilities.

Jazz vision is a wordless conversation between musical notes and visual expressions.

Jazz vision for me is seeing my art in musical term. It offers me an visual expressions in an ever-changing musical palette.

Creativity is not being afraid to be different. It takes madness to jump at an idea that no one else believes in.

Jazz is the art of thinking out loud.

Ideas come through us, not from us.

Imagination needs to be fed.

You are never more alive than when you are enraptured by pain.

Make them laugh, make them cry, and hack to laughter. What do people go to the theatre for? An emotional exercise. I am a servant of the people. I have never forgotten that.

I haven't always been the person I am today. I came into loving myself more than anything or anyone else.

Parents should leave books lying around marked "forbidden" if they want their children to read.

Hold me closer tiny dancer, count the headlights on the highway. Lay me down in sheets of linen, you had a busy day today.

No soul is desolate as long as there is a human being for whom it can feel trust and reverence.

I never did a right thing or abstained from a wrong one from any consideration of reward or punishment.

I sometimes lie awake at night trying to think of something funny that Richard Nixon said.

I really enjoy singing, it's entirely different to acting because I'm just being myself.

Pigs are filthy animals. I don't eat filthy animals.