I think there's so much negative influence on children in school settings. It becomes learning by rote to pass a test. It's not contextualized.

I’m not gonna sit around and waste my precious divine energy trying to explain and be ashamed of things you think are wrong with me.

You don't have to be fearless to do anything, you can be scared out of your mind.

When people say, "Oh, she plays like a dude," it's usually dudes who are the ones saying it. They're saying, "Oh, she's as good as us." Of course, that's a stupid statement.

Jazz has always been a melting pot of influences and I plan to incorporate them all.

Whoever you are, if you know what you're doing, you don't want other people to overtake the merit of your art.

I fear that I won't get better and that I won't have time to practice. To be called a "jazz musician" - it's a big responsibility.

I just think music is so intrinsically linked with images in the culture that we live in that youll be hard-pressed to have an experience with the music without a preconceived notion.

You can grow up with literally nothing and you don’t suffer if you know you’re loved and valued.

People are more used to seeing men who are masters at an instrument than women.

I am insubordinate by nature. I can't help it.

It's no shame in reaching second or third base if you aimed for first base.

The human race is called on throughout the Bible to repent of sin and return to God.

A work is not art until enough noise has been made about it and someone rich comes along and buys it.

Speaking generally, punishment hardens and numbs, it produces concentration, it sharpens the consciousness of alienation, it strengthens the power of resistance.

When I’m photographing I see life.

The populace may hiss me, but when I go home and think of my money, I applaud myself.

He doesn't need to fight anymore, but fighting is what he does

The English public always feels perfectly at ease when a mediocrity is talking to it.

No matter how you seem to fatten on a crime, there can never be good for the bee which is bad for the hive.

Some people like to do everything always the same thing. That's another way: To do the same thing.