Some of my biggest moments have been in jam sessions, but I don't want to talk about them. There were always other people involved.

Music should always be an adventure.

"If you don't make mistakes, you aren't really trying."

I don't think about music as being new or modern. I just play.

I made the tenor sax - there's nobody plays like me and I don't play like anybody else

If you don't make mistakes you are not really trying.

There's no such thing as bop music, but there's such a thing as progress.

Some people say there was no jazz tenor before me. All I know is I just had a way of playing and I didn't think in terms of any other instrument but the tenor

I honestly can't characterize my style in words. It seems that whatever comes to me naturally, I play

You can separate the men from the boys and ballads.

Change can only work in two ways – for the better, or for the worst. Yet, regardless of whatever manner in which change comes into our lives, what matters is how we view it and how we react to it.

I say that my value is based on my accomplishments. Christmas is God saying that I am His accomplishment and that will forever be enough.

Lindsay [Doran] goes round the table and introduces everyone -- making it clear that I am present in the capacity of writer rather than actress, therefore no one has to be too nice to me.

Defeat, if you survive it, should mean time for reflection.

High ends, high spending. We just trying to end life on a high note.

Even if my marriage is falling apart and my children are unhappy, there is still a part of me that says, 'God, this is fascinating!'

The English never smash in a face. They merely refrain from asking it to dinner.

The worst thing about war was the sitting around and wondering what you were doing morally.

Be crazy! But learn how to be crazy without being the center of attention. Be brave enough to live different.

Creative thinking may mean simply the realization that there's no particular virtue in doing things the way they have always been done.