It's very clean. With tape, you get noise.

Clifford Brown was in the jazz circles considered to be probably the greatest trumpet player who ever lived.

We always felt that if you do something with quality and integrity, then it's going to come back to you.

Instrumental music can spread the international language.

I was taken in by the bravado and the sounds of Mexico... not so much the music, but the spirit.

I like to listed to the adventurous guys - the Coltranes, Miles Davis, the guys who just let it loose.

I wake up in the morning, I do a little stretching exercises, pick up the horn and play.

I think we as human beings need to be able to appreciate each other's differences and I think jazz really takes us in that direction.

I'm seduced by the arts in general. Arts is like the power of now.

There's something interesting about playing live; you're in the moment, and I think it would be beneficial.

I play every day. It's like a habit for me now. I just, if I don't play, I kind of miss - something's off.

If you stop feeding strife, it will eventually lead to a peaceful life.

Character displays "the weighty impatience of having to explain something that should already be understood.

Who pleasure gives, Shall joy receive

I favor candidates who are biblically oriented, who hold the views of the Ten Commandments.

If you write a story based on a real person, you're trapped by the details of the real person and his life. It gets in the way of writing your own story.

I've always been comfortable with my sexual desires and what I like.

Knowledge is not a loose-leaf notebook of facts. Above all, it is a responsibility for the integrity of what we are, primarily of what we are as ethical creatures.

He was strong. And his heart, it was breaking.

We will have no jobs if we have no planet.

I am not Captain Save-A-Ho; I can only save one at a time, and that's me!