Who isn't a fan of Ray Charles?

...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.

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

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.

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.

If you want to be on Forbes Rich List, use Cosmic Ordering.

You can kill our love, but you can't delete our memories together

When you move like a jellyfish rhyth don't mean nothing. You go with the flow, you don't stop. Move like a jellyfish, rhythm means nothing.You go with the flow you don't stop.

If he acts, if he doesn't, it's meaningless. The whole thing goes forward. No one is important. No one at all.

It won't be a question of how well-trained or well-equipped the army is but one of the authority it serves.

Law may prescribe that the male nipples be made equal to the female ones, but they still will not give milk.

Advertising is the most potent influence in adapting and changing the habits and modes of life affecting what we eat, what we wear, and the work and play of a whole nation.

As lawmakers, we must assure the people of America that our nation will not experience the nightmare of the 2000 presidential election.

In terms of my father, if you have 4 children that work in film, then there certainly was a happy, positive influence from him because none us became an accountant.

There is no such thing as morality or immorality in thought. There is immoral emotion.