I would say that jazz is my own language.

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.

Take this short time that you have on earth and convert it into greatness.

Saphira: The worth is in the act. Your worth halts when you surrender the will to change and experience life. But options are before you

My personal feeling is that people need to be careful not to start over-analyzing and taking things apart and trying to be critical.

I think [George W.] Bush has done nothing right about global warming.

In combat, spontaneity rules; rote performance of technique perishes.

One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised.

How do you remember all those lines? By forgetting everything else.

I think college is something I want to experience just to have the experience, really. I think about going to college all the time.

Bobby just drops the pieces and they fall on the right squares

Every true artist has been inspired more by the beauty of lines and color and the relationships between them than by the concrete subject of the picture.