I used to play until 4 o'clock in the morning.My dad would go nuts - he'd scream and say the cops are gonna come and break our instruments.

People have been starving for intellectual fodder, but the best way to get people to close their eyes and not say anything is to tell them that they're not smart enough to comprehend.

Jazz is like a telescope, and a lot of other music is like a microscope.

I've had experiences where people say, 'I hated jazz before I heard you guys!' I'm like, 'You didn't hate jazz before you heard us, you hated the idea of jazz.'

The sooner the jihadis go up to their imagined #heaven, the sooner our earth would be a heaven.

If you analyse anything, you destroy it.

That the rebels or the terrorists used the chemical weapons in northern Aleppo five months ago [in 2013].

The passage is through, not over, not by, not around but through.

There's nothing that defines who you are more than boundaries, whether you cross them or not, in every aspect of your life, and horror is a really great boundary.

I ain't got much education, but I got some sense.

The fetus is the property of the entire society.

I think writing is a much more personal thing.

Friends you have, people you love, die and are born again.