You don't have to live the blues to play the blues.

Being stubborn has helped, being selfish is not a bad thing.

I recently formed a foundation to raise awareness for prostate cancer. I feel it's very necessary that men be more aware about prostate cancer and their health in general.

My father's father came from Russia; my mother came from Romania.

Being selfish to me means that you have to look out for yourself and you don't have to sacrifice.

I had sat in one day in Central Park with Bonnie and Delaney, and Duane was playing with them, so I asked if he wanted to work on an album. You never had to say to him how to play the guitar.

When you get cancer, it's like really time to look at what your life was and is, and I decided that everything I've done so far is not as important as what I'm going to do now.

My youngest son, who is now the drummer in my band, lives in Brooklyn. My oldest son is about to move out to California, and my daughters are both out of town.

My ego is controlled enough that I don't have to be the focus.

For me Brazilian music is the perfect mix of melody and rhythm. It just bubbles rhythmically. If I had to pick just one music style to play if would be Brazilian.

If you're in jazz and more than ten people like you, you're labeled commercial.

I get many letters every day from people who got married because they wanted their own selfish needs satisfied, and have only later come to realize that this does not work.

Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot.

Beyond my body my veins are invisible.

I'll date one day if I find someone that I want to let into my life enough.

My cell phone bill and my cable gets cut off all the time. Not because I don't have the money, but because I just forget to pay my bills.

The more we justify our beliefs, the more narrow-minded we become.

An architect ought to be an educated man so as to leave a more lasting remembrance in his treatises.

MY greatest regret in life is that I never became the heavyweight boxing champion ofthe world.

I don't think that I'm over his influence but they probably don't look like Picassos; Picasso himself would probably have thrown up looking at my pictures.

For it is the grace of Christ, and not our own virtue, that gives us the power to overcome the flesh and the world.