I'd go to hell to hear a good band.

One thing I like about jazz, kid, is that I don't know what's going to happen next. Do you?

The jazz band's chief stimulus, of course, was the rise of the negro 'blues' and their exploitation by the negro song-writer, W. C. Handy.

I could do with a bit more excess. From now on I'm going to be immoderate--and volatile--I shall enjoy loud music and lurid poetry. I shall be rampant.

As you think, so you are.

Make yourself feel good. Be enthusiastic about your day.

To see another as God intended, we must come from a place of loving inside ourselves, as God intended.

Fate has a strange way of making plans.

The sun is up, the sky is blue It's beautiful, and so are you.

To be lost in spiritlessness is the most terrible thing of all.

Elections are about choosing sides, but inaugurations are about closing ranks.

I realize that singing is saving my life, once I started again.

I've never met a successful pessimist.