I like to think of myself as an original. I have my own sound. That's not easy to come by, I worked on it for many years. But I like to think that I sound like Dewey Redman

What I reach for first when I play is sound. Technique maybe, but there is technique in sound.

The music should be first, not the ego or the personality or the style.

Maybe not as an idol, but I have influenced some people, including my son Joshua. So that feels good. Wherever I play musicians come to meet me, that is a great compliment to me. I am honored.

Meditation is not evasion

I think if a story has a message it should be incidental and accidental, otherwise it leans too close to indoctrination.

To those of you who are enslaved by your past, may my story set you free. For youth is innocent and its beauty is to always be cherished.

Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.

At the end of life, at the end of YOUR life, what essence emerges? What have you filled the world with? In remembering you, what words will others choose?

Expediency therefore concurs with Nature in stamping the seal of its approval upon Regularity of conformation.

First one works alone through the mind, then before the public through experience.

Too often we're happy to receive thanks from the nonprofits we fund, accepting gratitude instead of feedback or performance measurements.

As you get older, your experiences become more precious. Nothing material is important to me. It's people who are precious.

Soap, gloves, isolating patients, not reusing needles and quarantining the contacts of the ill - in theory it should be very easy to contain Ebola