I've done a lot of albums and I kinda know when I'm onto something that was inspirational for me to record and create, and this was one of those projects where I really enjoyed making the album.

Ive done a lot of albums and I kinda know when Im onto something that was inspirational for me to record and create, and this was one of those projects where I really enjoyed making the album.

If you play the very subtle jazz tunes with acoustic pianos, acoustic bass and it's a dead standard, you are going to play very differently. It depends on the music.

Arranging is the way I put my stamp on my music as much as my guitar playing.

In 2010, I had been playing guitar for 50 years.

Zamajobe is great. She's a terrific singer from South Africa.

Sometimes people are beautifulNot in looksNot in what they sayJust in what they are

There is no greater enemy than pride.

I work to stay alive.

Directors are like generals, political dictators, aggressive people...And everyone in the film is always grateful if you can tell them what to do.

Forgiveness is the scent that the rose leaves on the heel that crushes it.

I love when people walk into my house and start grinning: "This is too much - this is so you!" Why give people brown cardboard when you can give them embroidered, crystal-flecked organza?

I was fiercely independent and ambitious from a very young age.

Whereas smaller computer languages have features designed into them, C++ is unusual in having a whole swathe of functionality discovered, like a tract of 19th century Africa.

When you're serving at the local level, you have to build strong personal relationships to get things done.

Why, thou owest god a death.