There's so much music out there & so many possibilities. I like anyone who plays any instrument.

It's incredible how one song or even one little phrase or just a few notes, if you really concentrate on it, can be a kaleidoscope of possibility.

Music doesn't hurt anybody, that's what's amazing. Everything is in there, every kind of human emotion, from the darkest to the lightest. And it has power. Unbelievable power.

Every time I play with someone, not just a new person, but someone I've been with all along, that's where I really learn.

To me, jazz is a place where anything is possible.

There's always this sound out there that's just a little beyond my reach & that just sort of keeps me going.

I love listening to other musicians and seeing what they do to gain their distinctive respective sounds and edge.

I hate labels; the problem is that if you say you're one thing, it's hard for people to imagine you as something else. Music is way more complicated than that.

First I was a European-style player, then I was a downtown 'noise guy,' and now some people call me an Americana guy.

I spend a lot of time copying saxophone players and trumpet players.

I can write the stuff and play it myself and have something in my head, but the best feeling is when somebody else plays it and they're hearing something other than what I'm hearing.

I did not deceive you, mon ami. At most, I permitted you to deceive yourself.

The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and the lightning bug.

If you let the world roll on the way it's rolling, you're voting for death. I'm not voting for death.

I'm a Pisces, and Pisces have this weird inability to be completely spontaneous. We're too conscious of our actions. I've always been way too sensible for my own good.

First of all, don't mix your hairpins up with mine! You .... Oh! All right, mix your muck with mine. Mix it! Mix your rags with my tatters! Mix it all up.

In the meanest hut is a romance, if you knew the hearts there.

The art of writing fiction is to sail as dangerously close to the truth as possible without sinking the ship

It was my fifth grade teacher who introduced the idea that writing could be more than a hobby for me.

A lot of talented actors still have to pay their bills.

Better, Cilla thought, to be alone on a quiet night than to be alone in a crowd. Much better.