I was unfashionable before anyone knew who I was.

I tried practicing for a few weeks and ended up playing too fast.

Writing is like jazz. It can be learned, but it can't be taught.

The qualities in music which I considered most important - and still do - were beauty, simplicity, originality, discrimination, and sincerity.

Milton, of all people, gave the most perfect definition of the state of mind required to play jazz: ' with wanton heed and giddy cunning.' That's how you play jazz.

I think I had it in the back of my mind that I wanted to sound like a dry martini.

Not for me. If I want to tune everybody out, I just take off my glasses and enjoy the haze.

I would like to thank my father who discouraged me from playing the violin at an early age.

It was never supposed to be a hit. It was supposed to be a Joe Morello drum solo.

I discovered early in life that if you take gym first period, you can go into the wrestling room and sit in the corner and sleep.

Our basic audience begins with creaking elderly types of twenty-three and above.

Being naturally happy is the most impressive sign of freedom.

For too much of history, we've viewed the world's precious resources - both environmental and human - as things to extract, to make the most of in order to maximize their potential.

A boat can't have two captains.

Tell the readers a story! Because without a story, you are merely using words to prove you can string them together in logical sentences.

Hunger hurts, but starving works, when it costs too much to love.

Meditating everyday is essential. If you meditate every day and learn to control and stop your thoughts, you will become psychic.

The art of love-giving and taking become one.

A choice with no consequences has no value. Making a choice knowing there will be consequences, and being willing to bear them, is what distinguishes the right choices from the wrong ones.

Accreditation. The "doctorate of fine art." I've never heard something so stupid in my entire life.

When I got to Hollywood, at first I couldn't get a lot of jobs. So I grew a beard and look like a really bad Arab, and I started to get a lot of work because that's what they want.