Earlier in this century someone claimed that we work at our play and play at our work. Today the confusion has deepened: we worship our work, work at our play, and play in our worship.

Passion is a far better prioritizer than any organization system. Soul refreshment comes from SEEING glory – not getting stuff done.

He’s an indulgent sort of man……With a quick lip and a fierce tongue, the sort of tongue that draws you in with charm and words of praise, awkward silences and desperate worships.

I only had the right to sit in the shadows of the world, in complete silence. Whether I was laughed at, or told I was discusting, or thought of as unpleasant I would sit in the shadows.

Wit is the most rascally, contemptible, beggarly thing on the face of the earth.

You have to make changes before people are clamoring for changes. If people are asking for changes, it's too late.

every question possessed a power that was lost in the answer . . .

I wanted things that I couldn't at times articulate.

The only element of jazz that I keep is improvisation.

The hot hall full of painted girls and American soldiers is a saloon in some Western film. This noise drenches us, wakens us to do something else. It shows us a lost path.

Being on 'Idol,' you have no choice but to be an open book.

Leadership is the activity of influencing people to cooperate towards some goal which they come to find desirable and which motivates them over the long haul.