Generally, when a record label suggests album ideas for you, you smile politely, and then proceed to shoot it down, because it's never what you as an artist feel is right for you.

...The key to playing with any group is you listen all the time and you listen more than you play.

Hang on to your eccentricities, because they will give you a style.

When you compare music, you lose the joy of listening to it.

We don't want any vocalist messing up the music.

Sound is what drives my solos, not verbal concepts, I never think 'I'm going to use a Lydian Dominant scale and then go up a half-step', even though that might be exactly what I end up doing.

I find as much inspiration from the forerunners of jazz as I do the modern-day innovators of jazz.

I like forms that are flexible, that can let you feel creative.

Who isn't a fan of Ray Charles?

The way of success is the way of continuous pursuit of knowledge.

Avoiding pain causes endless suffering for you and others. Avoiding pain is really selfishness.

Ladies glisten, men perspire, horses sweat.-Early Nun Quote, The Old Ursuline Convent (1727) New Orleans, LA

Do you know the amount of evil done by well-meaning humans? Oodles. Do you know the amount done by ill-meaning devils? Infinitesimal.

These virtues are formed in man by his doing the actions ... The good of man is a working of the soul in the way of excellence in a complete life.

How could none of them comprehend the beauty of a human soul, shining in heaven for eternity? Where it would be whole again, as they all had been once in times past?

The people who misuse the Sabbath lose the blessings of spiritual food and growth promised to those who keep this commandment.

The adult who is constantly changing friends and changing mates is immature. He/she cannot stick it out because he/she has not grown up.

We are the universe experiencing itself.

If you think that being vegan is difficult, imagine how difficult it is for animals that you are not vegan.