I feel very strongly when there's no chance for me to find a key to a piece.

Coltrane was moving out of jazz into something else. And certainly Miles Davis was doing the same thing.

The only element of jazz that I keep is improvisation.

When we are on tour we also take chances.

Other times I say: I would very much like to try to do something with this music, but after playing for a few minutes, I have to break off.

Jazz, for me, is a closed circuit, like the term baroque in the world of classical music.

There's a certain phraseology involved in jazz, and I've moved away from that.

Sometimes it works, sometimes it fails, but that's what we face when we're dealing with improvisation.

You have to react to what's around you in the moment, whatever the music is. Just think of it as some place you have to enter and you need to find the key.

If you feel you have the right key, you try to make some phrase or sound that will fit.

Any damn fool can beg up some kind of job

We were designed to love and to be loved, to reach our dreams to unleash our potentials but not live in malice and envy, being hated and hating one another.

John Quincy Adams' depression was treated by his aunt with some reliable remedies, first sleep and then compassion. She said, " He was half cared for by having someone to care for him.

In every party there is one person who, through his dotingly credulous enunciation of party principles, incites the other members to defection.

Faced with the pain of freedom, man begs for his shackles.

I like people who dress quirkly and differently. Like in womenswear, thank god for Helena Bonham Carter!

Don't get caught up in other people's expectations. Don't take anything for granted, either.

I like to watch people. Sometimes I ride the subway all day and look at them and listen to them. I just want to figure out who they are and what they want and where they're going.

You know, the only reason net neutrality is controversial is because it's complicated.

I think it will get moving faster. I mean once you get it off the - once credit flows - now the recession is going to get worse.