I'm interested in music, not in my image. If someone plays something fantastic, that I could never have thought of, it makes me happy to know it exists.

It was when I found out I could make mistakes that I knew I was on to something.

Jazz is the only music in which the same note can be played night after night but differently each time.

When I have them working together, it's like a beautiful kaleidoscope.

For me, being an innovator doesn't mean being more intelligent, more rich, it's not a word, it's an action.

The idea is more important than the style you're playing in.

You don't have to worry about being a number one, number two, or number three. Numbers don't have anything to do with placement. Numbers only have something to do with repetition.

I don't try to please when I play. I try to cure.

Music has many uses and I think the most perfected use that music has is one of a healing quality.

Whatever you do, it's over when you do it - but first you have to do it.

We in the Western world suffer from too many categories and classes; we've forgotten that we all still have diapers on. We've separated music from life.

Preparing for the worst is an activity I have taken up since I turned thirty-five and the worst actually began to happen.

Blame yourself if you have no branches or leaves don't accuse the sun of partiality.

A man's behaviour may be quite harmless and even beneficial, when he ismorally behaving like a scoundrel. And he may do great harm when he is morally acting on the highest principles.

How am I supposed to be a mom to two kids, a wife and do a show every night? It's impossible!

Whatever offices of life are performed by women of culture and refinement are thenceforth elevated; they cease to be mere servile toils, and become expressions of the ideas of superior beings.

I also know that I am not a great technician.

Anybody who recognizes Israel will burn in the fire of the Islamic nation's fury.

Men are conservatives when they are least vigorous or when they are most luxurious-they are conservatives after dinner.

I will build you a castle with a tower so high it reaches the moon.

What I think a psychic is, unfortunately, I think in this day and age, it's taken on sort of a rancid sound.