The calm mind allows one to connect with the inner self, the Soul, the very source of our being. That's where the music lives. That's where my music comes from.

It's a matter of choosing what is most important to you and putting that first. Once you have recognized your true purpose in life, this becomes much easier.

I wanted an electric train for Christmas but I got the saxophone instead.

Now that I am much older, I have had a number of sax players tell me I was responsible for them playing sax. Some of them I have admired over the years.

I have no agenda - just to be loved. Somebody said to me, 'Whenever somebody says your name, a smile comes to their face.' That's a great accolade. I strive to keep it that way.

Tears may come and go, But there's one thing I know. All my life you're a friend of mine. You can depend on me. I'll be fine... 'Cause you're a friend of mine.

I do read music, but I prefer playing from the heart.

I take my job as a rock and roll sax player very seriously. To do it the way that I must do it, I must be in good condition. The better shape you're in, the harder you can rock.

Being involved in the well-being and advancement of one's own community is a most natural thing to do.

God will give you no more than you can handle.

It's love. It's two men - two strong, very virile men - finding that space in life where they can let go enough of their masculinity to feel the passion of love and respect and trust.

Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.

There is no other enjoyment like reading

I’m glad we can be friends.”There’s that word again. It’s like a safe word.

A science is any discipline in which the fool of this generation can go beyond the point reached by the genius of the last generation.

People aren't for hitting.

I suspect there have been a number of conspiracies that never were described or leaked out. But I suspect none of the magnitude and sweep of Watergate.

In the world of highways, a beautiful landscape means: an island of beauty connected by a long line with other islands of beauty.

There have been times in my life that I've had a ton of vices, and my demons have run amok for years and years and years.

Music can act upon our senses to produce or induce feelings of reverence, humility, fervor, assurance, or other feelings attuned to the spirit of worship.

Life and death. At some point we're gonna leave this world. Do I know when? Absolutely not.