If you listen to nature, all the sounds are done in a confident way. I'm trying to do that.

I remember times when the whole music scene was just flourishing.

I like to hear melodies that go from one extreme to the next- saxophone to a bell to a whistle, for instance.

I'm approaching a period in my life though where I'd like to be totally absorbed into music, doing concerts, writing something. Basically, that IS what I am doing.

I always try to think of a vocabulary to match different musical situations.

I've always been interested in shaping music in odd ways, with odd riffs and that's been probably something that I've continued on with my studies with improvisation as I'm working with people.

You have to know composition to be a good improviser.

I don't like to box myself in when I'm composing.

The poet is at the edge of our consciousness of the world, finding beyond the suspected nothingness which we imagine limits our perception another acre or so of being worth our venturing upon.

I always know that I am where I am supposed to be. I don't feel torn and I think that is really important.

Ancient astronauts didn't build the pyramids. Human beings built the pyramids, because they're clever and they work hard.

Don't be discouraged, but know that suffering produces perseverance, perseverance brings character, and character brings hope, and this is a hope which will not disappoint us.

Horace smiled. "Always breakfast like a man condemned. One never knows that a day may bring."

I find I have, and a heart doesn’t suit me, Windermere. Somehow it doesn’t go with modern dress. It makes one look old.

Not by force of arms are civilizations held together, but by subtle threads of moral and intellectual principle.

As weird as it might seem to some people, there is nothing I love more than an empty house and the sound of silence.

I want kids to know that it is okay to make a change in order to feel better about themselves.

In the fell clutch of circumstance, I have not winced nor cried aloud: Under the bludgeoning of chance my head is bloody, but unbowed.