It's either hip or it ain't.

There are no natural barriers. It's all music. It's either hip or it ain't.

The symphonic orchestras have sponsors, people who give them endowments, and I think it should be the same way with jazz - because this is a national treasure.

It has taken me quite a few years to realize the fact that most of the thoughts in my head are not necessary.

Girls like good-looking guys, and I am not very good-looking. In fact, I sort of look like a pudding

I went to medical school because I wanted to ask the big questions. Do we have a soul? Does God exist? What happens after death?

I don't enter, I'm entered. It's up to someone else. It's up to them.

I just really love people a lot. I really love them.

Equanimity is the gem in virtue's chaplet, and St. Sweetness the loveliest in her calendar.

When you step away from doing something that you have always been doing and then you return to it, you have a different perspective. You get that desire and the will to strike at everything.

The Great War was a progressive revelation and disillusionment.

I love Seattle, but I am definitely excited to be in a new place. Growing up there and then living in an apartment in the city for seven years, I just felt stagnant.

By the creative act, we are able to reach beyond our own death.