Kenny Burrell is a great musician and his music has helped to make me what I am today.

Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.

Music is a world within itself, with a language we all understand.

Just because a man lacks the use of his eyes doesn't mean he lacks vision.

We all have hearts.... If you have a heart, love somebody. If you have enough heart, love everybody.

Music, at its essence, is what gives us memories. And the longer a song has existed in our lives, the more memories we have of it.

It feels better to love than to hate.

There may be a brighter star. But through my eyes the light of you is all I see.

You can't base your life on other people's expectations.

What I'm not confused about is the world needing much more love, no hate, no prejudice, no bigotry and more unity, peace and understanding. Period.

I am what I am. I love me! And I don't mean that egotistically - I love that God has allowed me to take whatever it was that I had and to make something out of it.

I've always had a love affair with the ocean. It's my one and only true love.

I grew up going to church three times a week in my family. It's been a center of my life.

Bigotry is the sacred disease, and self-conceit tells lies.

The small charity that comes from the heart is better than the great charity that comes from the head.

I've made a lot of movies with kids in them. I don't know why that is, but it's something I've noticed.

You'd be forgiven for thinking that climate change means we'll have to sacrifice our creature comforts. But it doesn't have to be that way.

In college, I stopped doing pre-med and went into theater, and then I moved to San Francisco and lived there for five years.

Writing is a kind of performing art, and I can't sit down to write unless I'm dressed. I don't mean dressed in a suit, but dressed well and comfortably and I have to be shaved and bathed.

When you read, you think, and when you smoke, you think. It's a pleasurable thing, and not a duty.