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

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

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?

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.

You are a being of infinite courage.

Every Christian leader is oblige to teach their members how to discover their territory and cultivate their land.

“How ever did you see that?” “Because I looked for it.”

I discovered what is and isn't important to me. I decided I really wanted to enjoy life with someone fun, who can make the best out of any situation - whatever it is we're doing.

The main thing I do is to carry myself as best as I can on my pro level.

I think sometimes the very reason we go through something is so that we can be empathetic with another person later on.

When your kids come home, they don't necessarily want to talk to you. They just want to know you're standing there, ready to talk.

Surround yourself with people you want to be around.

You cannot depict love inside a frame of fact. It needs a mist to dissolve in.

I think that a lot of people are making a lot of money spreading anxiety. Anxiety sells.