I hate labels; the problem is that if you say you're one thing, it's hard for people to imagine you as something else. Music is way more complicated than that.

There's so much music out there & so many possibilities. I like anyone who plays any instrument.

It's incredible how one song or even one little phrase or just a few notes, if you really concentrate on it, can be a kaleidoscope of possibility.

Music doesn't hurt anybody, that's what's amazing. Everything is in there, every kind of human emotion, from the darkest to the lightest. And it has power. Unbelievable power.

Every time I play with someone, not just a new person, but someone I've been with all along, that's where I really learn.

To me, jazz is a place where anything is possible.

There's always this sound out there that's just a little beyond my reach & that just sort of keeps me going.

I love listening to other musicians and seeing what they do to gain their distinctive respective sounds and edge.

First I was a European-style player, then I was a downtown 'noise guy,' and now some people call me an Americana guy.

I spend a lot of time copying saxophone players and trumpet players.

I can write the stuff and play it myself and have something in my head, but the best feeling is when somebody else plays it and they're hearing something other than what I'm hearing.

Being afraid is part of living, Rory, just as much as being scared is part of being courageous. You can only be happy when you’re brutally honest with yourself.

Since when do you look out for me? You really have grown up.""Had to happen sometime, " I say.

True beauty is when someone radiates that they like themselves.

If you want to learn how to be happy, you have to know what is sadness first.

In riding a horse, we borrow freedom.

It's just thinking of funny things that will amuse us and entertain us and we'll come and do it.

You should wake up every day looking for the trouble you can get into.

My first postseason home run was a walk-off in the Division Series. That was just a special moment in my career.

The world does not pay men for that which they “know”. It pays them for what they do, or induce others to do.