Teaching is learning. When you're teaching full-time you have to do research, stay current.

I prefer music where melody, harmony and rhythm come together and no one element overshadows the other. Jazz at its best is a democracy of creativity.

You don't need sunglasses inside a building in the middle of the night.

Jazz isn't as profitable for labels like Hip hop or Rap. Jazz needs subsidies to continue, just like European classical works of Bach and Beethoven are subsidized.

I had to agonize over my selection since our music is so rich and all the above plus many others have contributed.

Call me anything you like, but don't call me a lady.

The Hero cares not for a wild winter's storm. For it carries him swift on the back of the storm. All may be lost and our hearts may be worn, but a Hero fights forever.

Class, race, sexuality, gender and all other categories by which we categorize and dismiss each other need to be excavated from the inside.

Each generation of humanity takes the earth as trustees... We ought to bequeath to posterity as many forests and orchards as we have exhausted and consumed.

If I could, I would have my son on tour the whole time. But he has school, summer camp, and he has to see his mother.

Can you see the hand of God in your own life?

A lot of leading countries in the world, including the United States and Russia, have to take their responsibilities much more seriously to ensure we are back on the road to peace and stability.

I went to England when I was 13-years=old and then I went again when I was 14. When I went for the second time I felt like the first summer I was there it was a waste because I didn't exist yet.

If you don't know about it, you can't get it.

Where thought is free in its range, we need never fear to hazard what is good in itself.