If you listen to a lot of music, it gradually seeps into your consciousness or your unconsciousness and comes out in your music.

The sound and proper exercise of the imagination may be made to contribute to the cultivation of all that is virtuous and estimable in the human character.

To be creative and spontaneous, you have to live with imperfection.

As Eric Dolphy said 'Once you play the music, it's in the air. It's gone'. And that's true. But when you record it, it comes back to haunt you sometimes.

Schlepping all of the equipment is the part I hate more than anything.

No journey out of grief was straightforward. There would be good days and bad days.

People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out but when the darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.

Russians, in the knowledge of inexhaustible supplies of manpower, are accustomed to accepting gigantic fatalities with comparative calm.

I want to paint a canvasthat will be nothing but harmonious tone.

I got interested in the justice system. If I was, I'd probably be a defense lawyer. I was headed that way, but luckily changed my track to film school.

Our capacity for self-deception has no known limits

The object of war is victory, the object of victory is conquest, and the object of conquest is occupation.

If I want to keep working as an actor, I'm going to become a comedian who does fart jokes.

A flag doesn't cause someone to sit in a prayer meeting for an hour, and then stand up and shoot people.

The body is the doorway to the timeless, because the body is always where we are and always in the present moment.