One very fundamental thing has not changed and I realized that it will never change... is that I really need to go home and practice.

Its more about conception and touch and spirit and soul than whether my hardware was in place.

My first relationship to any kind of musical situation is as a listener.

Listening is the key to everything good in music.

People sometimes say it takes a long time to become a Jazz fan, but for me it took about five seconds.

Most guys at Berklee are going to wind up truck drivers.

More and more as time has gone on, I realize that playing is really more about listening than it is about playing.

Smokin' at the Half Note is the absolute greatest jazz-guitar album ever made. It is also the record that taught me how to play.

Learning to play is mostly about learning to hear, and learning to really listen deeply to sound in a musical way is a lifetime's worth of work.

Jazz is an idea that is more powerful than the details of its history.

It is Jazz's very nature to change, to develop & adapt to the circumstances of its environment.

A true confession: I believe in a soluble fish.

I no longer want to see others as humans. I want to learn to see others as brothers, sisters, mothers, & fathers.

The family unit plays a critical role in our society and in the training of the generation to come.

The road to perdition has ever been accompanied by lip service to an ideal.

I believe 2016 is the Year of the Woman and now more than ever, it is our time to accomplish anything and everything.

Man supposes that he directs his life and governs his actions, when his existence is irretrievably under the control of destiny

When they took me to do the camera test for the vampire make up, after they put the prosthetic on, I went though the entire process, I went back to my trailer and I looked in the mirror and I smiled.

And I think to myself what a wonderful world. Oh, yeah.

If Christianity had asserted itself in Germany, six million Jews would have lived.

You never know what life is like, until you have lived it.