Everyone is a genius at being themselves

Whatever you think can’t be done, somebody will come along and do it. A genius is the one most like himself.

I say, play your own way. Don't play what the public want - you play what you want and let the public pick up on what you doing - even if it does take them fifteen, twenty years.

Sometimes it's to your advantage for people to think you're crazy

The loudest noise in the world is silence.

There are no wrong notes; some are just more right than others.

Trying to explain music is like trying to dance architecture.

Jazz is freedom. You think about that.

Don't play everything (or every time); let some things go by... What you don't play can be more important than what you do.

Jazz is my adventure. I'm after new chords, new ways of syncopating, new figures, new runs. How to use notes differently. That's it. Just using notes differently.

The only cats worth anything are the cats that take chances.

Islam is not a religion of peace. Islam is a religion of submission. Islam means submit.

Hitler really wasn't so bad. In the black way.

Opinions is a species of property - I am always desirous of sharing.

There's not too much difference between writing a picture book and writing a collection of a hundred poems or so, except that the bigger books take a lot longer to do.

I'm always preparing for a regular life.

When I have it in mind, I write it out.

Our intuitions, as humans, aren't always very good. Changes that happen really suddenly, on the strength of the most minor of input, can be deeply confusing.

I was a Marvel guy. I started reading comics when I was a kid.

I saved a girl from being attacked last night. I controlled myself.

Church growth strategies are the death gurgle of a church that has lost its way.