I've been doing a lot of music for films and television for quite a few years.

Growing up, I was very much interested in jazz music.

Emotions are the fuel to really move you along, that’s the only way you can create music. If you don’t feel any emotions, like it’s not going to happen.

The passion and spontaneity in music is all gone.

The problem that I have is with the music business. For some reason it seems almost impossible to get anything, any music, released which includes improvisation or soloing.

My mother is a singer, still performs today; she's a jazz singer.

I spent well over a year on the road with Sarah Vaughn. That was amazing.

Still for fun, I play the drums, but I don't do much recording with them.

You never know what you find once you really get going.

Everything from now on will be done online - physical music media like the CD are dead in the water.

World peace, true love, and happily-ever-afters amount to wasted wishes, failed endeavors, and most precious dreams.

Mind being the seat of the soul, and literature being the expression of the mind, literature, it follows, is the soul of an age, the surviving and immortal part of it.

The dangers of the sea should always take precedenceover the violence of the enemy’Rear-Admiral Ben Bryant CB, DSO and two bars, DSC

Taking responsibility for your own life is not a Left wing idea

I'll never go against my morals.

I bought my parents a home before they died, and they got to see that I was going to be all right. They always thought I would go someplace.

Only by realizing what selfishness and lack of generosity really are can the delicious fragrance of true love and effective generosity, which is not of the mind, burst forth in our hearts.

I've never turned over a fig leaf yet that didn't have a price tag on the other side.

When they put me in jail, that's when they turned me into an activist. Up until the time I went to jail, I was just a comedian.

You never know when a helping hand will change another person's entire life.