I do the best I can with any instrument I get attracted to. But they're just tools in order for you to express yourself and that's really the upshot of it.

Check out the albums, ... Check out the live performances. That's the reality of it all. Music is such an energizing thing.

I get most of my news from the Jon Stewart Daily Show.It's the most level commentary you can find.You have to laugh, because it's all so true.It's the closest thing to a counterculture.

I keep healthy and I'm always very active and always have been so. I don't really see any signs of aging yet. Music keeps you young.

I also went to art school and learned to play a piano there, but I play by ear.

I never really thought about becoming a professional musician.

I write songs about real things... The subject dictates the mood and it goes from there, really.

Everybody I know in England was raised on Mose Allison.

I always make it a point to pick songs on which players really shine.

Vision is defined as a program for restoring the human.

If I am not for myself who will be for me? If I am not for others who am I for? And if not now when?

to love is to risk, not being loved in return. to hope is to risk pain. to try is to risk failure. but risk must be taken because the greatest hazard in my life is to risk nothing.

I could be working 300 hours a week. I just say no. The power of slow is the power of no. I can’t go to every party I get invited to. I can’t do every work thing.

I have a lot of fears that normal people have.

Were we all one body, we should lose the tremendous stimulation that comes from the present arrangement, and I fear that our uniformity would become the uniformity of death and the tomb.

My father and mother split and I never saw my father until I was 20, nor did I see much more of my mother.

Does that mean we should give up? Probably. But there are two issues worth considering. The first is - is it really true that drugs destroy the integrity of the game?

Yes, but the thing is my influences are so rooted in afro-American culture especially that it's quite sad to not enjoy the same success because the influences are so strong from there.

Irrelevance happens when the speed of change outside an organization is greater than speed of change inside an organization.