I was playing birthday parties. House-rent parties where they used to sell whisky during prohibition.

Whatever you think can’t be done, somebody will come along and do it. A genius is the one most like himself.

I say, play your own way. Don't play what the public want - you play what you want and let the public pick up on what you doing - even if it does take them fifteen, twenty years.

Sometimes it's to your advantage for people to think you're crazy

The loudest noise in the world is silence.

There are no wrong notes; some are just more right than others.

Trying to explain music is like trying to dance architecture.

Jazz is freedom. You think about that.

Don't play everything (or every time); let some things go by... What you don't play can be more important than what you do.

Jazz is my adventure. I'm after new chords, new ways of syncopating, new figures, new runs. How to use notes differently. That's it. Just using notes differently.

The only cats worth anything are the cats that take chances.

Those who spell Magic with a K aren't.

The family is where most of our joy comes from.

I love action films. I don't really like drama.

The first game was different but tonight we were just worried about getting ourselves back on track. It's another loss. We've got to keep going, keep trying to get out of this and win on Saturday.

The capacity to be patient, to bear with others through thick and thin, is within the reach of anyone.

Love is not a passive state. It is an active force. It is the force of the soul.

Self-worth comes from who we are in Christ, not what we accomplish in this world.

My plastic surgeon ... said my face looked like a bouquet of elbows.

Someday, you will find the one who will watch every sunrise with you until the sunset of your life.

Time for solitude. God, I ask you to remake my heart. Fill it with what You love. Remove from it what You don’t. And mend what I’ve broken.