Human nature defeats me sometimes, how greed and spite can lurk so divisively around the utmost courage and sacrifice.

If we don't think about our death until we die, how can we decide how we want to live?

Sometimes the magic of life is beyond thought. It's the sparkle of intuition, of bringing your own personal energy into your music.

Whatever success you have had, whatever victories you have experienced, whatever you have done so far in your life is only a fraction of the potential within you

I'm a simple man. I like pretty dark-haired women and breakfast food.

...his vacant eyes took on a more sinister look, taking notice of us for the first time, a stranger in our midst, a monster.

It's the moms who always have to work a little harder, to make everything right.

It's sad when you see someone do really well and then you just don't hear about them anymore.

If we are incapable of finding peace in ourselves, it is pointless to search elsewhere.

Maybe somewhere down the line when I'm done playing, I'd want to style NBA players.

I think I was first awakened to musical exploration by Dizzy Gillespie and Bird. It was through their work that I began to learn about musical structures and the more theoretical aspects of music.

The greatest thing is, at any moment, to be willing to give up who we are in order to become all that we can be.

Gaze no more in the bitter glass The demons, with their subtle guile, Lift up before us when they pass, Or only gaze a little while.