When we are on tour we also take chances.

Coltrane was moving out of jazz into something else. And certainly Miles Davis was doing the same thing.

The only element of jazz that I keep is improvisation.

Other times I say: I would very much like to try to do something with this music, but after playing for a few minutes, I have to break off.

Jazz, for me, is a closed circuit, like the term baroque in the world of classical music.

There's a certain phraseology involved in jazz, and I've moved away from that.

Sometimes it works, sometimes it fails, but that's what we face when we're dealing with improvisation.

I feel very strongly when there's no chance for me to find a key to a piece.

You have to react to what's around you in the moment, whatever the music is. Just think of it as some place you have to enter and you need to find the key.

If you feel you have the right key, you try to make some phrase or sound that will fit.

God will not punish you when you speak your mind, because he speaks through you if he truly lives in you.

Sir Mark Turner, " he said. "I speak with the tongues of a thousand angels. Butterflies follow me wherever I go. Birds sing when I take a breath.

To gain victory over the flesh was the purpose of fasting and celibacy, which denied the pleasures of this world for the sake of reward in the next.

Her eyes flutter up to meet mine. “Are you hungry?”she asks. Am I ever.

When you're on a film and you're doubting something, it's usually because you don't think the audience is going to like it.

In every man's heart there is a devil, but we do not know the man as bad until the devil is roused.

As President Obama is inaugurated for a second time, the biggest political surprise is that gun control is now key to his political legacy.

I don't analyze too much, because then I'll question, 'Why do I write down all of these random little phrases?'

An accent in a way can be an entry into a character.

Fix upon your ideal of what you wish to make of yourself.