I really create everything I do from the heart.

The whole rise of new adult contemporary music and smooth jazz was a nice surprise.

I practice my saxophone three hours a day. I'm not saying I'm particularly special, but if you do something three hours a day for forty years, you get pretty good at it.

I think everybody has to kind of decide what the word 'jazz' means to them, and that's fine.

What is music anyway? It's a form of communication, and that's why I play the kind of music that I think - that I hope - can communicate with people.

Maybe the biggest thing that I've learned musically is that anything is possible. Things can work when maybe they don't seem like they can.

I approach everything in my life the same way; if it feels right, I know it.

I've learned that you simply can't control those bad vibes.

Just figure out what you think jazz is, and then if it fits into that category, it's jazz, and if it doesn't, it isn't. It's no big deal.

I learned so much about playing and touring being on the road and in the studio with Jeff, but I'd always played a lot of gigs in Seattle even prior to joining the Fusion.

That's my ideal day, time with my boys.

Words are not static.Language shape our memories, and it is also shaped by our memories.

I’m very headstrong. Once I’ve caught fire, there’s no dousing the flames—all engines full speed ahead.

Do I have permission to take control of you first? Just your bodies, not your minds.""I've been waiting for you to admit you wanted my body.

Give me the strength to leaf, for I fear otherwise we may hang ourselves.

I was inbred into the game by my father

98% of the atoms in your body were not there a year ago.

Hinduism is synonymous with humanism. That is its essence and its great liberating quality.

There's nothing to catch up on. You came, you saw, you scored, you left. End of story.

Every great religion is, in truth, a concentration of great ideas, capable, as all ideas are, of infinite expansion and adaptation.

Sin met Mae and Alan coming into the flat. Mae frowned. "Is it no-shirts festival day?" "Every day with Nick is no-shirts festival day," Alan said absently, but he was frowning too.