You don't decide you're hip. It just happens that way.

Hipness is not a state of mind, It's a fact of life!

I keep reverting (to Duke Ellington), he to me is the greatest ever and my favorite jazz philosopher, as such.

There's no future without the past and anybody who doesn't really understand where jazz has come from has no right to try to direct where it's going.

Right now, I'm not really thinking about marriage.

When we look out into space, we are looking into our own origins, because we are truly children of the stars.

There is a central difference between the old and new economies: the old industrial economy was driven by economies of scale; the new information economy is driven by the economics of networks.

This here song might offend some, if it does it's because your dumb.

Wealth is walking into any bookshop and buying any book you want without looking at the price tag.

I had the fortunate experience to play with people from different schools of music. Sam Rivers is from the fundamentalist school of music.

The old guys like me started in the theatre. I was in the theatre for nine years.

I hope you will attain enlightenment. I am here to tell you that you already have! But you don't know... The difference between the Buddha and us is the confidence in knowing that he was enlightened.

Petitions are ridiculous.

Real inward devotion knows no prayer but that arising from the depths of its own feelings.