If you think this is weird, just look at yourselves.

Creativity is more than just being different. Anybody can plan weird; that's easy. What's hard is to be as simple as Bach. Making the simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity.

Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity.

I never heard my music played the way I heard it in my head.

I am Charles Mingus, half black man, not even white enough to pass for nothing but black. I am Charles Mingus, a famed jazzman, but not famed enough to make a living in this society.

I'm trying to play the truth of what I am. The reason it's difficult is because I'm changing all the time.

My music is evidence of my souls will to live.

If Charlie Parker were a Gunslinger, There'd be a Whole Lot of Dead Copycats

Jazz music is a language of the emotions.

Making the complicated simple is true creativity.

Bach is how buildings got taller. It's how we got to the moon.

Live each day with a grateful gratitude.

Lie to me again, " she whispered. "I love you, " he said.

Nicklaus at the 86 Masters. At his age, with his game at the time.

All language is a popularity contest.

If you're not living your truth, you're living a lie.

Beauty is an internal light, a spiritual radiance that all women have, but most women hide - unconsciously denying its existence. What we do not claim, remains invisible.

I grew up in the Ukraine 'til I was about 7, and then I moved to L.A.

Spiritual is the word people use when they mean they want to be covered whey they die but they're not getting up early on a Sunday.

I grew up in a situation of extreme abuse, but there was no chance to talk about it, so music became the escape if you like.

I believe the cinema is one of our principal forms of art. It is an incredibly powerful way to tell uplifitng stories that can move people to cry with joy and inspire them to reach for the stars.