I wasn't so interested in being paid. I wanted to be heard. That's why I'm broke.

It was when I found out I could make mistakes that I knew I was on to something.

Jazz is the only music in which the same note can be played night after night but differently each time.

When I have them working together, it's like a beautiful kaleidoscope.

For me, being an innovator doesn't mean being more intelligent, more rich, it's not a word, it's an action.

The idea is more important than the style you're playing in.

You don't have to worry about being a number one, number two, or number three. Numbers don't have anything to do with placement. Numbers only have something to do with repetition.

I don't try to please when I play. I try to cure.

Music has many uses and I think the most perfected use that music has is one of a healing quality.

Whatever you do, it's over when you do it - but first you have to do it.

We in the Western world suffer from too many categories and classes; we've forgotten that we all still have diapers on. We've separated music from life.

My name is Patricia Lauren Bordeaux, and I, like my creator before me, am a very lonely vampire.

There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.

If my strength is technology, financial structuring is my son's skill.

It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age.

The funny guy doesn't get the girl until later in life. High school, college, everyone still wants the brooding, dangerous guy you shouldn't have.

I've never been helpless, I just have powerful enemies

To me Polanski is one of the greats in terms of psychological horror. It's just hard to top him because he's so damn good at it.

It is a curious fact that the word essayist showed up in English before it existed in French.

She watched me with a creepy sort of detached curiosity, as if I were a bug crawling across the sidewalk in front of her. I wondered briefly if she was the ant stomper type.

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