What I reach for first when I play is sound. Technique maybe, but there is technique in sound.

The music should be first, not the ego or the personality or the style.

I like to think of myself as an original. I have my own sound. That's not easy to come by, I worked on it for many years. But I like to think that I sound like Dewey Redman

Maybe not as an idol, but I have influenced some people, including my son Joshua. So that feels good. Wherever I play musicians come to meet me, that is a great compliment to me. I am honored.

Life was good. Everything was going right. It was almost scaring him because usually when things were going this well it was the calm before the storm hit.

As I fingered my way through the songs, I felt my worries slough away. My music has always been the best remedy for my dark moods. As I sang, even my bruises seemed to pain me less.

If your thoughts, feelings and actions are not in harmony of what you desire, you won't materialize it.

You should approach technological things in a nostalgic way.

As rain falls equally on the just and the unjust, do not burden your heart with judgments but rain your kindness equally on all.

I think I've evolved into someone pretty confident - in myself and in my skin.

She must find a boat and sail in it. No guarantee of shore. Only a conviction that what she wanted could exist, if she dared to find it.

I didn't put out this album because I wanted everybody to know I was grown up. I'm 21 and that's not grown up.

Spring rain leaking through the roof dripping from the wasps' nest.

Lasting companies know how to reinvent themselves.