Jazz of the sort we play is a happy, extroverted music. You don't have to think about it too much.

A frisky spirit makes my trombone sing.

Here in England we live at a slower pace, have more time to enjoy things - like good jazz.

In America, life is introverted, self-absorbed - and so is their music.

We play happy music and we make people happy, that's why they like us

I have only been working in the office for a few months, but I already have a development plan and had the opportunity to job shadow someone in a role that is of interest to me.

I come to a world of iron to make a world of gold.

I feel very strongly that young women have regressed a little bit. But I do get all preachy about it.

My whole career from the early 70s on has been mind-blowing. I didn't imagine in my life that I would ever be considered a guitar player first of all because I started off as a singer.

Voting is one of the few things where boycotting in protest clearly makes the problem worse rather than better.

Around your skin, I tie and untie mine.

I also have a degree in marriage, family and child counseling - I'm a therapist.

O divine art of subtlety and secrecy! Through you we learn to be invisible, through you inaudible and hence we can hold the enemy's fate in our hands.

What is companionship where nothing that improves the intellect is communicated, and where the larger heart contracts itself to the model and dimension of the smaller?

You are the Beloved, you are the Divine, you are a creation that is made into perfection.