I didn't ask my mother to buy me a trumpet or a violin, I started right on the water hose.

When I die, I want them to play The Black and Crazy Blues, I want to be cremated, put in a bag of pot and I want beautiful people to smoke me and hope they got something out of it.

We are all driven by an invisible whip. Some run, some have fun, some are hip, some tip, some dip, but we all must answer to the invisible whip.

Keep searchin’ for your mystery note on the universal piano of life.

What about a blues in W, in the key of W.

All it is, is a tone. So I'm gonna come back as a note!

I wish we could just stay on the bandstand, it's so peaceful up here.

All of us know history repeats itself, but mighty few of us recognize the repetition until too late.

As you write your novel, you gradually start thinking like some of your characters in it. And at times the writer may lose himself completely in some character.

We all suffer. If a man's wise, he learns from it.

Human nature, as manifested in tribalism and nationalism, provides the momentum of the machinery of human evolution.

I hate Bernard Shaw because he says that life is compromise.

It's ridiculous what I do. I can't believe in it - but I have to.

Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal.

Theres a child within me. Everything is fascinating. The hunger to learn, do better and more creative things never goes.

The biggest risk a person can take is to do nothing.

Why is Jewish owned press so consistently anti-Israel in every crisis?