Jazz is my adventure. I'm after new chords, new ways of syncopating, new figures, new runs. How to use notes differently. That's it. Just using notes differently.

Whatever you think can’t be done, somebody will come along and do it. A genius is the one most like himself.

I say, play your own way. Don't play what the public want - you play what you want and let the public pick up on what you doing - even if it does take them fifteen, twenty years.

Sometimes it's to your advantage for people to think you're crazy

The loudest noise in the world is silence.

There are no wrong notes; some are just more right than others.

Trying to explain music is like trying to dance architecture.

Jazz is freedom. You think about that.

Don't play everything (or every time); let some things go by... What you don't play can be more important than what you do.

The only cats worth anything are the cats that take chances.

All musicians are subconsciously mathematicians.

Be where you are

To hear for the duration of a heartbeat the universe and the totality of life in its mysterious, innate harmony.

Lost. The therapist made it sound as if the person could be found. As if death wasn’t final and irrevocable.

I have grown up alone. I've taken care of myself. I worked, earned money and was independent at 18.

Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.

As much as you do get beat-up doing even small action sequences, it's incredibly fun.

April 19 And now it is spring. Birds are singing. Wistful notes and jubilant. And bare streets and no need for coats, and skipping ropes and bicycles and a thin new moon.

The notion of collective contribution, like the Wikipedia, is a very powerful one.

I believe the road to hell is paved with adverbs, and I will shout it from the rooftops.

Writing is a funny business. You sit in your room and listen to voices and write everything down. What kind of a profession is that?