I put out a recording of me singing mostly jazz because I wanted people to know I'm coming from a jazz background.

I like words. Words are places, rooms, distant airs, thin and tropical. They make us feel and imagine we are more than our bodies.

You never know when you're making a memory.

It's OK to not be political unless your country is falling apart.

I get weary of reading about rebirths because we're all growing all the time and it diminishes the life you've lived if you say 'I'm a new person.

In my opinion, the Republican Party is the last on the list to care about the needs of old people and children and poor people.

For the most part, people use God as Santa Claus.

I really enjoy creating music onstage, to participate in making music live.

There is no fear before and no fear after. We give our best.

My worst job was working in the laundry of a nursing home.

You can't break the rules until you know how to play the game.

You have your God, I have my guts.

Talent is the seed

I must exchange whispers with God before shouts with the world.

gold never comes to the dreamers - except in dreams.

Hollywood is what you make it; you have to choose company with care because you become what they are.

What I'm really trying to say is that I believed an armed insurrection could work. After I was shot and went to prison, that ended that illusion. I had time to think.

The foolishness of old age does not characterize all who are old, but only the foolish.

Mainstream media would convince you that there's commercial culture and that's all - but this other music is still here.

Providence is always on the side of the last reserve.

What happened in the United States election is not a matter for the United Kingdom, it is a matter for the United States and the United States authorities.