I'm a jazz musician by education and vocation, but I don't think jazz should [ dictate] what I want to do.

Black has always been a staple for me, but that's not really a good favorite color. I've been really into browns lately.

OneBeat is one of the greatest initiatives in advancing the meeting of cultures worldwide.

Looking is the nature of wisdom.

A real leader has the ability to motivate others to their highest level of achievement; then gives them the opportunity and the freedom to grow.

This leaf here took forever to become that perfect leaf. We're that. We're work in progress. That's actually being alive.

The West has given us the liberal miracle of individual rights, individual responsibility, merit, and human satisfaction.

TV, it's a director's medium, and they wanna make it look interesting. To be rehearsing mostly for the sake of where you're standing so they can do the lighting, that's what I don't like.

Everything in the world is exactly the same.

I don't really have any childhood memories of my dad, unfortunately, .. I was 10 years old when he passed, so my memories are kind of skewed. I don't have many memories of my childhood, period.

I wonder whether she was sorry for leaving us behind.

My publisher, who was so good as a taster and editor, when she became a writer, lo and behold, it was all this feminine tosh.

I've worked with a lot of different producers, a lot of different writers on the album, so I mostly feel like I learned a lot about what I don't want to do the next time around.