I would love to study guitar or trumpet.

Life's short. Anything could happen, and it usually does, so there is no point in sitting around thinking about all the ifs, ands and buts.

I don't think your ability to fight has anything to do with how big you are. It's to do with how much anger is in you.

I'm romantic. I fall in love every day. Not with people but with situations. The other day, I saw a tramp polishing his shoes. That just gripped my heart.

I've always had my own style, I've always been different. I don't like to wear anything that anyone else is wearing because it's very important for me to make a statement.

Life is so much more rewarding if you strive for something, rather than take what's given to you on a plate.

Every bad situation is a blues song waiting to happen.

Life happens. There is no point in being upset or down about things we can't control or change.

I don’t need help because if I can’t help myself I can’t be helped.

Music is the only thing that will give and give and give and not take.

If you don't throw yourself into something, you'll never know what you could have had.

These memories are part of my heritage, the fabric of my personality, and as real to me as the land itself.

My big thing is that I love to write. I want continue writing and performing.

I listened to many different types of instruments and music, and have always tried to look at the bass as an instrument as opposed to only a bass.

I have a really difficult time watching myself on film. I literally cower in my seat and cover my face.

The socialist countries have the moral duty of liquidating their tacit complicity with the exploiting countries of the West.

I have to have music as a soundtrack to writing fiction. I listen to it at other times, too, but it helps me write.

Wynton Marsalis is jazzy the same way someone who drives a BMW is sporty.

Ideas about life organize perception; names of emotions organize sensations; rules of syntax organize thought. But pain comes on its own.

You can go and visit those places. Nothing there, nothing at all. There are Iraqi checkpoints. Everything is okay.

This is the reason we cannot complain of life: it keeps no one against his will.