There have been two great revelations in my life: The first was bepop, the second was homeopathy.

As a musician you have to keep one foot back in the past and have one foot forward into the future.

I don't care much about music. What I like is sounds.

Men have died for this music. You can't get more serious than that.

It's taken me all my life to learn what not to play.

One of the reasons we're here is to be a part of this process of exchange.

You can't steal a gift. Bird [Charlie Parker] gave the world his music, and if you can hear it you can have it.

I try to play the bare essence, to let everything be just what it's supposed to be.

The sign of a mature musician is knowing what not to play.

Where there's no mutual respect, there's trouble!

Thank you, ladies and gentlemen, for your magnificent indifference.

The opposite of grief is not laughter or happiness or joy. It is love. It is love. It is love.

Other's success is not your failure, but your success can be other's failure.

Two ways to treat a girl: Make her feel as a princess Or Make her feel as a slave.

The carbon tax is the single biggest rolled gold example of Federal Labor not listening.

I had no television when I was little, just a stack of old, beat-up comics from the 1950s and 1960s.

If history is really relevant in today's world, the proposition doesn't command much respect. Perhaps the past is a different country, but if so no one much wants to travel there.

The hardest thing about a musical is making sure everybody is working on the same damn show. That is the monster.

Life takes on meaning when you become motivated, set goals and charge after them in an unstoppable manner.

From Ernest Hemingway's stories I learned to listen within my stories for what went unsaid by my characters.

I know people within the Hare Krishna community look at pop music as secular, different, and something separate from spiritual music but for me, there's no difference.