If I even lose my glasses or make a mistake. I become really disappointed in myself.

The whole rise of new adult contemporary music and smooth jazz was a nice surprise.

I practice my saxophone three hours a day. I'm not saying I'm particularly special, but if you do something three hours a day for forty years, you get pretty good at it.

I really create everything I do from the heart.

I think everybody has to kind of decide what the word 'jazz' means to them, and that's fine.

What is music anyway? It's a form of communication, and that's why I play the kind of music that I think - that I hope - can communicate with people.

Maybe the biggest thing that I've learned musically is that anything is possible. Things can work when maybe they don't seem like they can.

I approach everything in my life the same way; if it feels right, I know it.

I've learned that you simply can't control those bad vibes.

Just figure out what you think jazz is, and then if it fits into that category, it's jazz, and if it doesn't, it isn't. It's no big deal.

I learned so much about playing and touring being on the road and in the studio with Jeff, but I'd always played a lot of gigs in Seattle even prior to joining the Fusion.

To see the beauty, love

I'd rather love a million times and have my heart broken every time, than hold a permanitely empty heart forever.

I have done so much medical and scientific research Crashing Life I am thinking about putting PhD behind my name or maybe B.S.

There is no diplomacy like silence.

A lot of success in life and business comes from knowing what you want to avoid: early death, a bad marriage, etc.

The things that are important to me - being a mother, a businesswoman, an activist - are all things that were borne out of great passion.

We live in the worst country in the world. At least we do for lazy, inefficient, office-bound police, whose response to an extraordinary rise in violent crime is to order more speed cameras.

And I wrote my way out of the labyrinth.

I can rest when I'm dead.

Every other religion points to answers. Jesus, though, says 'I am the answer'.