My mother is a singer, still performs today; she's a jazz singer.

Growing up, I was very much interested in jazz music.

Emotions are the fuel to really move you along, that’s the only way you can create music. If you don’t feel any emotions, like it’s not going to happen.

The passion and spontaneity in music is all gone.

The problem that I have is with the music business. For some reason it seems almost impossible to get anything, any music, released which includes improvisation or soloing.

I spent well over a year on the road with Sarah Vaughn. That was amazing.

I've been doing a lot of music for films and television for quite a few years.

Still for fun, I play the drums, but I don't do much recording with them.

You never know what you find once you really get going.

Everything from now on will be done online - physical music media like the CD are dead in the water.

But how can I let him just walk away with a smile on my face and a slap on his back when every cell in my body is tied painfully to him, and I can’t breathe when I think of him being away from me?!

Words are living things.

Why is it, I wondered, that old people are always so self-centered and excitable? But I just smiled benignly and stood back, comforted by the thought that soon they would be dead.

Men are fine, love is fine, it's marriage I'm a little disappointed in.

You know that great car-stomach feeling when you fly over a hump? That was my whole body.

What will you do in the mundane days of faithfulness?

As for you and your heart and the things you said and didn't say, she will remember them all when men are fairy tales in books written by rabbits.

Oh, god,” I said. “Sorry, sorry. Do I die now?” --Sadie to Zia

This life is a tremendous assertion of freedom

That's inches away from being millimetre perfect.