When you compare music, you lose the joy of listening to it.

...The key to playing with any group is you listen all the time and you listen more than you play.

Hang on to your eccentricities, because they will give you a style.

We don't want any vocalist messing up the music.

Sound is what drives my solos, not verbal concepts, I never think 'I'm going to use a Lydian Dominant scale and then go up a half-step', even though that might be exactly what I end up doing.

I find as much inspiration from the forerunners of jazz as I do the modern-day innovators of jazz.

I like forms that are flexible, that can let you feel creative.

Who isn't a fan of Ray Charles?

Generally, when a record label suggests album ideas for you, you smile politely, and then proceed to shoot it down, because it's never what you as an artist feel is right for you.

Senator John Stennis:The civil rights movement did more to free the white man that the black man. ... It freed my soul.

Keep one goal only and that is ‘to know thy Self [Soul]’. Do not be insistent about ‘I want to do this and do that’. Whatever happens, at whatever time, is correct.

Being a bad guy was easy, being a hero was hard.

Loyalty is everything to him, ” Robbie said. “He expected ye to trust him, to believe in him, without requiring an explanation.” She had failed David, and he could not forgive her.

Philosophers need not much use the word 'intuition' or the concept of intuition, except when they happen to be working on the epistemology of the a priori.

If chocolate were a mandatory part of breakfast, people wouldn’t be so grouchy in the morning.

What I know about money, I learned the hard way – by having had it.

To look away from the world, or to stare at it, does not help a man to reach God; but he who sees the world in Him stands in His presence.

Writing can be a very solitary business. It's you sat at a desk typing words into a computer. It can get lonely sometimes and lots of writers live quite isolated lives.

I think that helps because there has been no formality of friendship, the politeness of friendship, so we can just work directly on the work that's ahead of us [with Tom Hardey].