I like forms that are flexible, that can let you feel creative.

...The key to playing with any group is you listen all the time and you listen more than you play.

Hang on to your eccentricities, because they will give you a style.

When you compare music, you lose the joy of listening to it.

We don't want any vocalist messing up the music.

Sound is what drives my solos, not verbal concepts, I never think 'I'm going to use a Lydian Dominant scale and then go up a half-step', even though that might be exactly what I end up doing.

I find as much inspiration from the forerunners of jazz as I do the modern-day innovators of jazz.

Who isn't a fan of Ray Charles?

Generally, when a record label suggests album ideas for you, you smile politely, and then proceed to shoot it down, because it's never what you as an artist feel is right for you.

I don't think they knew very much about the war in Korea at all.

The toddler must say no in order to find out who she is. The adolescent says no to assert who she is not.

Rock and roll music - the music of freedom frightens people and unleashes all manner of conservative defense mechanisms.

School systems now routinely have more administrators than classroom teachers. They have armies of counselors and therapists and nutritionists and 'multi-cultural learning facilitators.'

Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.

Our fear of technology is really a fear of empowerment. We now have the ability to design the reality we live in, and we have to step up to the occasion.

Sometimes I feel like she deserves a best friend who is just a little more special.

The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happy married life.

I know that people from New Zealand don't ever wanna be confused with being Australians.

Anything can be achieved with a good, healthy dose of courage.