I have not practiced saxophone since 1980. I mean, not one note. I do not pick it up in my house, and that's the end of it.

Great musicians accept everything that they hear and find something good. They take what they like and they throw away what they don't like

I see myself and many artists like me as the torchbearers through these dark ages.

If you can make art with sound, can't you make music with objects?

Eye was a great discovery. He is one of the great vocalists of all time.

We're not on the outside looking in, we're on the outside looking out.

I'm constantly tortured, and that's why I say happiness is irrelevant. Happiness is for children and yuppies.

I feel like there are messages. I feel like there are angels. I feel that there is a legacy and an energy. And I feel that it's possible to tap into that.

It's a matter of keeping people on a spontaneous edge.

I have wit in my work and a sense of humor, but I do not use irony in any way

You need to believe in something that's bigger than yourself. I think that's what everybody wants to believe in that.

A lion does not become king of the jungle hunting mice.

A beautiful woman looking at her image in the mirror may very well believe the image is herself. An ugly woman knows it is not.

Common sense is not so common.

Nothing is so fragile as thought in its infancy; an interruption breaks it: nothing is so powerful, even to overturning empires, when it reaches its maturity.

Music is the universal language no matter the country we are born in or the color of our skin. Bring us all together.

If there is one word that describes our form of society in America, it may be the word-voluntary.

Give people a convincing reason and they will lay down their very lives.

The past is what makes now like now makes tomorrow.

All that matters is love and work.

I've done about six comedies. Oddly enough, the script came to me from one of the guys in Platoon