Jon Deitemyer is the drummer everyone wants right now.

Music chooses her musicians.

All music now, I think, is fair game for jazz musicians to interpret, and they have been. I would consider those songs standards now. "Norwegian Wood" is a standard; "Call Me" is a standard.

I must say, I don't think there's any more challenging music out there in jazz than what we're doing.

I have a good life. I have nothing to complain about, and the music is just too interesting.

I am a fan of the compositions of The Beatles, but I don't care for their interpretation of them. But as compositions, I just think that some of them are brilliant and have become standards.

If you don't toot your own horn, don't complain that there's no music.

You come to America, and, if you do a big TV show, then you can be overexposed, or old, before you're new.

Where, where for shelter shall the guilty fly, When consternation turns the good man pale?

I just sing and write songs and wear what I want. It's quite a good job really. If I wanted to I suppose I could become more of a fashion icon, but singing is my thing.

There comes a time when a race of beings makes a decision. When they chose to reject enlightenment, it's the end of their world because the karma is inevitable. They have to destroy themselves.

Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order.

Barack Obama is the New Generation and the hot light of a dawn that goes way beyond clever talk of morning in America.

Parents shouldn't assume children are made out of sugar candy and will break and collapse instantly. Kids don't. We do.

I have learned that you're only relevant to someone if you're beneficial to them somehow/some way

The overtime threshold is to the middle class as the minimum wage is to low-wage workers.