My parents had a pub and each Sunday there was an accordionist. They have told me that when I was in my cradle, I already was imitating the gestures of the musician.

Well, being a jazz musician is not a rose garden!

The harmonica is a great instrument.

You can be in Tokyo or Alberta at four in the morning in your hotel and you can still practice if you feel like it. A trombone cannot do that at four in the morning.

Jazz is very much alive. Everywhere I go there's a new generation of musicians playing Jazz music.

And if I have a strong point, it's that I like to believe it's not cheap or schmaltzy sentimentality.

My father bought me a little cardboard accordion, and when I was three I got this little machine.

Where joy in an old pencil is not absurd.

I hate birthdays. I hate birthday parties. I hate them. I don't know what it is, anybody's only got to come wafting near me with a piece of cake with a candle on and I break out in hives.

It's a treat to see the sun rise over the desert. What am I saying? It's a treat to fire off a rocket car over the desert!

Irony and pity are two good counselors: one, in smiling, makes life pleasurable; the other, who cries, makes it sacred.

Life was given to me as a favor, so I may abandon it when it is one no longer.

It's true we don't know what we've got until its gone, but we don't know what we've been missing until it arrives. Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime.

The essence of belief is the establishment of a habit.

There was never any point at which I was considering leaving Harry Potter. If I were to stop acting, it would have been after.

You can't be patient if you're not strong.

Equally, we require a collective past - hence the endless reinterpretations of history, frequently to suit the perceptions of the present.