I'd listened to [Ornette Coleman] all kinds of ways. I listened to him high and I listened to him cold sober. I even played with him. I think he's jiving baby.

I didn't know the right names for anything at first, but I knew what knocked me out. Changes... man I dug.

I was a young cat, and I was very fast, but I wasn't telling no kind of story.

I resolved to play my trumpet like a sax.

Don’t break the rules when you haven’t fully figured them out yet.

People quickly forget evil because they still haven't created a language to describe it so the world refuses to carry the burden, preferring to forget.

Creating Identity

When he got loaded, the human cannonball knew there were not many men of his caliber.

The generation of women who came before us did much of our shouting. They laid the groundwork and now we can be calm and constant and steady.

My whole thing is, I collect what I know I want to read, and I have certain bookshelves in my bedroom that contain all the books I haven't read yet.

I have always had an ambition to do 'Dancing with the Stars.

He knows that the most important words in all languages are the small words.

I'm pretty fortunate that I'm in the films I'm in largely because the directors have asked me to be in them. I'd love to do more of them, but the writing and historical stuff I'll probably always do.

I'm not a soldier for anything, either. I'm only a singer and I don't think it makes a difference what we sing.