I'll just sit at the piano a lot an play like through different chord exercises and kind of just throwing my hands down on the piano from one chord to the next to see what happens.

Instrumental music is increasingly marginalized.

Instrumental music is increasingly marginalized and there's just no outlet, there's no venue for it, in terms of media.

Its all about finding the right note at the right place and knowing when to leave well enough alone. And that's a lifelong quest.

I look at the artistic process as like experiencing the world, channeling it through your personality and sending it back out there. That's the process.

Music is just kind of an expression of who I am. It's what I do.

You never get it figured out. You just keep playing.

I tend to play in a way that feels natural to me. To me that's authentic for myself. I play by where I'm led by some sense of where I feel I'm supposed to be.

When I make records, I never listen to stuff after it's done. Ever.

Ninety-nine percent of the music that was of any interest to me when I was growing up came out of the black community.

To me, the object of practicing is to allow you to play what you hear. But you're always hearing new things, so you never get to the end of it.

The greatest wealth in the world is the wealth of time.

Grace has a face. It is Jesus Christ.

The beauty of the Internet is that there's no space limit.

Analysis does not set out to make pathological reactions impossible, but to give the patient's ego freedom to decide one way or another.

It's just a joy to be able to work with a lot of different musicians. When you play with great musicians, whether they're schooled or self-taught, they keep you on your toes.

There is great skill in knowing how to conceal one's skill.

More contact means more sharing of information, gossiping, exchanging, engaging - in short, more word of mouth.

I think that the majority of messages are validating messages to confirm the survival of conscious. And many times that validation message is negative or sad.

That which a person works hardest on, he winds up having. That's one of the fundamentals of this universe. That to which he devotes energy, he finally has.

I made a rule for myself that the only television things I would do would be my own stories.