The iconoclastic mode, that specific mode of language, there is an element of it that it is punk - that is confrontational. That's just a part of the language of jazz - at a certain point.

What makes bebop legitimate is the fact that when it was done, it was illegitimate.

Bud Powell's probably the biggest influence on my piano playing.

His name, even, is part of the marketing scheme, I mean, Thelonious Sphere Monk - how can you think of a better name to fit his style of playing?

I can imagine an utter hatred for the jazz avant-garde.

I like people not being able to be pigeon-holed.

People come from a certain generation and a certain whole way of looking at things, and you really do become a prisoner of your own world.

Thelonious Sphere Monk: there's not a more perfect name to fit his compositions than that name.

It was rather beautiful: the way he put her insecurities to sleep. The way he dove into her eyes and starved all the fears and tasted all the dreams she kept coiled beneath her bones.

I hope my forgiveness reminds you, Of the part you forgot to break in me.

Only victory should tell you that you have failed long enough.

As the Internet breaks down the last justifications for a professional class of politicians, it also builds up the tools for replacing them.

Information work is thinking work.

A lot of people are in politics to make friends, too, instead of making positive change. Theyre worried about getting re-elected.

The road can get rocky, but you have to find ways to work through it.

We need to demonise soda, the way we've demonised cigarettes.

Lost Echo sits amid the voiceless mountains, And feeds her grief.

I think it all goes down to who plays the better football on the night.