The woman is the reflection of her man. If you love her to the point of madness, she will become it

I think happiness is overrated. Satisfied, at peace-those would be more realistic goals.

You must lose everything in order to gain anything.

In Missouri, where I come from, we don't talk about what we do - we just do it. If we talk about it, it's seen as bragging.

I embrace the messiness of life. I find it so beautiful actually.

I would love to work in a Bollywood film as there is so much drama and colour in the films there.

Man, when I'm riding with the helmet on, I'm invisible. And people just deal with me as the guy on the bike... it gives you a chance to read 'em.

I'm probably 20 percent atheist and 80 percent agnostic. I don't think anyone really knows. You'll either find out or not when you get there, until then there's no point thinking about it.

The things you own end up owning you.

Do you know how you tell real love? It's when someone else's interest trumps your own.

Personally I like ageing. With age comes wisdom and I have said it before and I say it again, I will take wisdom over youth any day.

Dare to dream.Dare to reach beyond the stars.

There are people who treat you right and there are people who do not treat you right. Don't get affected by the latter! Hold on to the former - the chosen ones in your life and move on.

North Texas is by far the most serious minded jazz program I have encountered.

If you have selfish, ignorant citizens, you're gonna get selfish, ignorant leaders.

I fall at the feet of those who meditate on the Truest of the True.

What I've been trying to do for years is to get the music played on a station other than jazz stations, you know, to expand the audience.

Nothing stings us so bitterly as the loss of money

I went through this delayed-adolescence thing. I didn't want to be tied down to a family.

Once you touch the biographies of human beings, the notion that political beliefs are logically determined collapses like a pricked balloon.