Yeah, it's more like playing what you think is appropriate for the moment, not forcing any particular style.

I never do anything to strictly satisfy a fickle, ever-changing commercial world. I do the music I like to play. It's the only way I feel comfortable existing in the industry.

The trio is the biggest sound you can have with the smallest unit.

That's the exact concept behind the music: to take that kind of, I guess whatever you want to call it, jazz sensibility - but not have it be about solos.

I do dig the White Stripes. I like the record they have out now.

I certainly hope my music is in no way, shape or form influenced by anything that would be known as a jam band. If it is, then I'm going to do something else.

The market didn't define the music the music defined the market.

Part of the problem is that people at our school don't listen. They just put on the headphones and tune out the world. It's intimidating.

The players have to come and play. Today we did.

I'm not an expert on Islam, but I think there are lots of noble religions whose basic principles could stand considerably more observation in the world of business.

All damaged people are dangerous. Survival makes them so.' 'Why?' 'Because they have no pity. They know what others can survive, as they did.

Only he who handles his ideas lightly is master of his ideas, and only he who is master of his ideas is not enslaved by them.

If Thomas Edison invented electric light today, Dan Rather would report it on CBS News as, 'Candle-making industry threatened'.

Humanity is not perfect in any fashion; no more in the case of evil than in that of good. The criminal has his virtues, just as the honest man has his weaknesses.

Work is the only answer. I have three rules to live by. One, get your work done. If that doesn't work, shut up and drink your gin. And when all else fails, run like hell!

It takes more faith to be an atheist than to believe in God.

If you open yourself as an artist, as a human being to this experience of growing, you grow anyway.