I just have never seen anyone build anything significant in any field without having a deep and detailed sense of what they are building on.

Its more about conception and touch and spirit and soul than whether my hardware was in place.

My first relationship to any kind of musical situation is as a listener.

Listening is the key to everything good in music.

One very fundamental thing has not changed and I realized that it will never change... is that I really need to go home and practice.

People sometimes say it takes a long time to become a Jazz fan, but for me it took about five seconds.

Most guys at Berklee are going to wind up truck drivers.

More and more as time has gone on, I realize that playing is really more about listening than it is about playing.

Smokin' at the Half Note is the absolute greatest jazz-guitar album ever made. It is also the record that taught me how to play.

Learning to play is mostly about learning to hear, and learning to really listen deeply to sound in a musical way is a lifetime's worth of work.

Jazz is an idea that is more powerful than the details of its history.

Successes don't teach you much, but mistakes? That's a learning situation.

The arrow that pierces the deer only scratches a whale.

At any Maroon 5 concert, you'll see a room backstage marked 'yoga.'

It is not theatre that is indispensable, but something quite different. To cross the frontiers between you and me.

A wife is a gift bestowed upon a man to reconcile him to the loss of paradise.

We need to strengthen our analytic capacity in Washington, we need to centralize the anti-terrorism effort

I don’t know if you or I exist, but somewhere there are poems about us.

Every man is eloquent once in his life.

You don't win as a party unless you become a bigger party.

Political elections are a good deal like marriages, there's no accounting for anyone's taste.