I've been lucky with the circle of people I'm playing with. We've played enough that there's a language we talk with each other when we play.

There's so much music out there & so many possibilities. I like anyone who plays any instrument.

It's incredible how one song or even one little phrase or just a few notes, if you really concentrate on it, can be a kaleidoscope of possibility.

Music doesn't hurt anybody, that's what's amazing. Everything is in there, every kind of human emotion, from the darkest to the lightest. And it has power. Unbelievable power.

Every time I play with someone, not just a new person, but someone I've been with all along, that's where I really learn.

To me, jazz is a place where anything is possible.

There's always this sound out there that's just a little beyond my reach & that just sort of keeps me going.

I love listening to other musicians and seeing what they do to gain their distinctive respective sounds and edge.

I hate labels; the problem is that if you say you're one thing, it's hard for people to imagine you as something else. Music is way more complicated than that.

First I was a European-style player, then I was a downtown 'noise guy,' and now some people call me an Americana guy.

I spend a lot of time copying saxophone players and trumpet players.

Strategy can turn a losing battle into a winning battle.

There are 80 million moms in the United States. Forty million stay at home with their children.

I think that women definitely have a special bond as friends that is hard to describe to men, and we don't often see that portrayed narratively.

Exhaustion pays no mind to age or beauty. Like rain and earthquakes and hail and floods.

The four cautions: Beware a woman in front of you, beware a horse behind of you, beware a cart beside of you, and beware a priest every which way.

Without nourishing our own souls, we can't nourish the world, for we cannot give what we do not have. As we attend to our souls, we emanate invisibly and involuntarily the light we have received.

We can transform reality to the extent that we influence what happens in consciousness and thus free ourselves from the threats and blandishments of the outside world.

If you go back, 'The Great Gatsby' would be a portrait of the rich and fortune made by business.

Though my muscles may stiffen, though my skin may wrinkle, may I never find myself yawning at life.

I'm the happiest the saddest guy in the world can be.