To me, there are lots of different stories to tell and you usually find the best way to tell the one you are telling once you are in it.

Its more about conception and touch and spirit and soul than whether my hardware was in place.

My first relationship to any kind of musical situation is as a listener.

Listening is the key to everything good in music.

One very fundamental thing has not changed and I realized that it will never change... is that I really need to go home and practice.

People sometimes say it takes a long time to become a Jazz fan, but for me it took about five seconds.

Most guys at Berklee are going to wind up truck drivers.

More and more as time has gone on, I realize that playing is really more about listening than it is about playing.

Smokin' at the Half Note is the absolute greatest jazz-guitar album ever made. It is also the record that taught me how to play.

Learning to play is mostly about learning to hear, and learning to really listen deeply to sound in a musical way is a lifetime's worth of work.

Jazz is an idea that is more powerful than the details of its history.

What is the one message that only you can give? It's your story.

You kept quit... When these victims wanted your help to survive, you kept quit.

Who cut him?' Sam liked saying things like 'Who cut him?' It reminded him of being a kid and watching prison movies, which is probably why prisoners talked like that, too.

I may be a nut, but I'm fastened to a good bolt, the Lord Jesus Christ.

Note to Self - Thoughts design my energy! My thoughts WILL design the energy that moves me!

I'm not opinionated; you're just wrong. -Bucky

A faint smile that made every tiny hair on her body rise in quivering attention. "How fast can you run?" A wolf's question.

I do love writing prose interspersed with the poetry of other people. Their rhythms break into my prose and create a connection.

Treat everyone you meet as though they are the most important person you'll meet that day.

My experience of living with people of diverse religions and cultures taught me that one will never be at peace with the other if one is at war with oneself.