My grandfather and my father disagreed about music, not least of all because my dad wanted to improvise. It wasn't just that he wanted to play different music; it was just that he came off the dots.

I'm just the mere shadow of my former selfishness. I crave the silhouette of your kiss.

I used to be disgusted; now I try to be amused.

I believe that music is connected by human passions and curiosities rather than by marketing strategies.

I feel like a juggler running out of hands.

I can't say anymore than I love you. Anything else would be a waste of breath.

Don't wear your heart on your sleeve when your remarks are off the cuff.

The radio is in the hands of such a lot of fools tryin' to anesthetize the way that you feel.

And I don't feel any form of music is beyond me in the sense of that I don't understand it or I don't have some love for some part of it.

Women hear rhythm differently than men.

Maybe I just never learned my harmony part, because what everybody says sounds odd to them sounds perfectly natural to me.

The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates.

We no longer have a free market in the United States, we have a government controlled free market.

Proclaim not all though knowest, or all though owest.

I remember on 'JAG,' Joe Jackson punched Stephen Culp and shattered his nose.

The final word is love.

Léonie, you will do well to consider. You are not the first woman in my life." She smiled through her tears. "Monseigneur, I would so much rather be the last woman than the first,” she said.

Some people are born mediocre, some people achieve mediocrity, and some people have mediocrity thrust upon them.

I don't make 'issue' films. I like making films about rebels or pioneers or people that are doing something.

Vices that are familiar we pardon, and only new ones reprehend.

In today's society, looking good and feeling good often trumps doing good and being good. And some people don't know the difference anymore.