It don't mean a thing if it ain't got that swing.

There are 2 rules in life: Number 1- Never quit Number2- Never forget rule number 1.

Music, of course, is what I hear and something that I more or less live by. It's not an occupation or profession, it's a compulsion.

A problem is a chance for you to do your best.

There are two kinds of music. Good music, and the other kind.

The most important thing I look for in a musician is whether he knows how to listen.

If you have a great band with a mediocre drummer, you have a mediocre band. If you have a mediocre band with a great drummer, you have a great band!

Everyone prays in their own language, and there is no language that God does not understand.

You have to stop listening in categories. The music is either good or it's bad.

I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.

Love is supreme and unconditional; like is nice but limited.

Nothing can be the total truth in the worlds of manifestation and the more solid your concepts, the more likely they are going to sink you, sooner or later.

I am lucky to have advisers whom I trust.

Big deal... the only cats that don't have three legs are the ones with two through zero legs.

Modesty is a shining light; it prepares the mind to receive knowledge, and the heart for truth.

Every few years I'll party way too much to remind myself what an idiot I am.

If she and Sam ever had kids, they'd be gluten-intolerant out of self-defence.

If you pursue happiness, you are an ordinary person. If happiness pursues you, you are an extraordinary person. Do not chase happiness; let it chase you.

I don't criticize political or electoral freedom, but capitalism's perversion of the concept: the illusion that I hold the power over my own life.

You hit a bad shot, you have to get over it right there and then so you can get focused on the next one.

Profan'd the God-given strength, and marr'd the lofty line.