Growing up, I was very much interested in jazz music.

Emotions are the fuel to really move you along, that’s the only way you can create music. If you don’t feel any emotions, like it’s not going to happen.

The passion and spontaneity in music is all gone.

The problem that I have is with the music business. For some reason it seems almost impossible to get anything, any music, released which includes improvisation or soloing.

My mother is a singer, still performs today; she's a jazz singer.

I spent well over a year on the road with Sarah Vaughn. That was amazing.

I've been doing a lot of music for films and television for quite a few years.

Still for fun, I play the drums, but I don't do much recording with them.

You never know what you find once you really get going.

Everything from now on will be done online - physical music media like the CD are dead in the water.

The moon was barely visible behind the pillows of clouds. Overhead, the lights caught the drizzle in a slow-motion light show.

The pygmies, for example, or the Mindoro of the Philippines, do not want equal rights – they just want to be left alone.

Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a madhouse.

I have no choice but to defend the most vulnerable among us.

Pot is like a gang of Mexican bandits in your brain. They wait for thoughts to come down the road, then tie them up and thrash them.

At least I didn't invent a dead girlfriend

You were born into fearlessness, but the world may have taught you to fear.

Saying that all documentaries are the same is like saying all foreign films are the same.

All directors should have to act and all actors should have to direct, so that they can understand all these key things that come into play with whether you can meet your day.

That I want to try in life? There's a lot of things I want to try. There's never enough time to try anything. I would love to have a hobby. I have no hobbies.