Jazz is the assassination, the murdering, the slaying of syncopation. I would even go so far as to confess that we are musical anarchists.

... And the boy whose hair remained the color of lemons forever.

Without a song, life is a sorrow.

If we go in to each situation that life throws at us with an attitude that we canlearn from it then we will never be truly defeated.

A person is either a missionary or a mission field.

Something's your vocation if it keeps making more of you.

Honey, some boys stopped by to see you. They had wood.

It's the struggle that makes you triumphant.

I'm not really sure what people's preconceived notions are. I don't look at the gossip websites - it's unhealthy and I think it's a large part of what drives people in L.A. crazy.

The destruction of images, the first signs of which reach back to the 1920s, eliminated a lot of kitsch and unworthy art, but ultimately it left behind a void.

I'm not interested in corporate magic or fame.