I was always a very good student.

When a human being without amplification makes a sound that is high and loud, it is almost unworldly.

Certainly, jazz has become more of a niche, which is surprising, because it's our music. It's the national music of America.

We are unique, each human voice, not because we are completely self-generated, but because of who we choose to assemble the countless factors that made us.

We sing with the entire body. The sounds that we make emanate not just from the head, but from the whole heart and soul, and, most important, the gut.

I don't want to be somebody who stands still and sings pretty. Each song is a world. Each song is a story. I don't achieve nearly what I want.

Everybody's a work in progress. I'm a work in progress. I mean, I've never arrived. I'm still learning all the time.

There's no performance where I never have to think about setting up a phrase or making a technical adjustment while I'm performing.

Someone once said that there are probably seven naturally good singing days in a year-and those are days you won't be booked. What we must learn is how to sing through all the other days.

It is our responsibility to learn how to speak to an audience that is less informed about music, to give it a reason to want to come and see us instead of going to the movies.

I don't want to record anything unless it can be great and genuinely interesting.

Cursed be he above all others Who's enslaved by love of money. Money takes the place of brothers, Money takes the place of parents, Money brings us war and slaughter.

I wish people would spend their money on hybrid cars.

For all the days of our lives," we finished and I felt a little like a character in one of my grandma's soap operas.

When Black people seriously organize and take up arms to fight for our liberation, there will be a lot of white people who will drop dead from no other reason than their own guilt and fear.

Writing is the action of thinking, just as drawing is the action of seeing and composing music is the action of hearing.

The people I still talk to are some of the old Galaxy players all over the place. That's a bond that's pretty special.

A lot of people are willing to pray or to put in work, but they're not willing to take true risks.

We've already donated to Haiti. It's called the U.S. income tax.

Klonopin - more deadly than coke

Immortal Spenser, no frailty hath thy fame but the imputation of this idiot's friendship!