I'm always looking to create new avenues or new visions of music.

Jazz has borrowed from other genres of music and also has lent itself to other genres of music.

The spirit of jazz is the spirit of openness.

Don't be afraid to expand yourself, to step out of your comfort zone. That's where the joy and the adventure lie.

You would not exist if you did not have something to bring to the table of life.

Music is the tool to express life - and all that makes a difference.

Forget about trying to compete with someone else. Create your own pathway. Create your own new vision.

I think there's a great beauty to having problems. That's one of the ways we learn.

You can practice to attain knowledge, but you can't practice to attain wisdom.

Music happens to be an art form that transcends language.

The most valuable things in life are priceless. They are courage, compassion, wisdom, respect for ourselves and others, and a host of characteristics that we call the beauty of the human spirit.

A deep commitment to general education is impossible in a context in which faculty and students prize above all their ability to teach and study what they want.

Brent had a love-hate relationship with the Government. He hated what it had become over the years and loved to make an issue about it.

I don't want to run around with new people. I feel safer with my friends.

That path leads ever down into stagnation.

A wise skepticism is the first attribute of a good critic.

I define personal success as being consistent to my own personal mission statement: to love God and love others.

When you've been on a programme called 'An Idiot Abroad' job offers aren't exactly flying in.

Sit up straight, listen and participate.

In order to see, you have to stop being in the middle of the picture