Gratitude is when memory is stored in the heart and not in the mind.

Seemed to me that drumming was the best way to get close to God.

Playing is my way of thinking, talking, communicating.

Man, as long as people want to hear Jazz, I'll give it to them.

All art is communication of the artists' ideas, sounds, thoughts; without that no one will support the artist.

Every day I look forward to getting with my instruments, trying new things.

I'm motivated. The spirit hits me and I just keep going and don't stop. The more I play, the more I can invent, the more ideas come to me.

It's always Jazz. You can put a new dress on her, a new hat, but no matter what kind of clothes she's the same old broad.

Playing gives me as much good feeling now as it did when I was a bitty kid.

Music was our wife and we loved her. We stayed with her, clothed her and put diamond rings on her hands.

I always figured I'd still be playing at this age.

My story was not the story of a girl's broken dreams: it was the story of a girl who couldn't be broken.

Like an athlete trains, so must the student of life.

The AP has only so many reporters, and CNN only has so many cameras, but we've got a world full of people with digital cameras and Internet access.

The ultimate politeness in art consists of speaking only to those who are able to uncover and measure its relationships. Anything else is symbolic, and symbolism is merely transcendental imagery.

I wanted to work with people from the world, with different minds and different visions.

Every time you see a beautiful woman, just remember, somebody got tired of her.

I am changing the notion that actresses can’t have happy marriages

The problem with digital books is that you can always find what you are looking for but you need to go to a bookstore to find what you weren't looking for.

The Eastern monarch who proclaimed a reward to him who should discover a new pleasure, would have deserved well of mankind had he stipulated that it should be blameless.

I'm usually trying to get back into the dream or analyzing the dream. And yeah, the days, most days begin like that.