You don't know what you like, you like what you know. In order to know what you like, you have to know everything.

That's kind of like how jazz is sometimes. You're out there predicting the future, and no one believes you.

When you're dealing with music without words, titles are more a means of identification than anything else. What's the point of getting lofty?

One of the things that's clear to me from interviews that I've read is that the more popular successful jazz musicians had audiences above and beyond the music community.

Pop doesn't really look back. It can't. What makes pop work is simplicity.

What is jazz? It, It's almost like asking, What is French? Jazz is a musical language. It's a musical dialect that actually embodies the spirit of America.

I'm not going to play funk licks on a jazz album. That makes no sense.

A lot of musicians have a tough time hearing what we're doing in a trio format.

I think that if you keep banging at the door all you need is a little foothold, a little tiny foothold, and then the rest will take care of itself.

So much of Jazz doesn't have an audience other than music students or musicians.

Coltrane came to New Orleans one day and he was talking about the jazz scene. And Coltrane mentions that the problem with jazz was that there were too few groups.

Kindness is not entered onto the great ledger of civilisation.

Scratch an actor and you'll find an actress.

Niceness is a decision, a strategy of social interaction; it is not a character trait.

If I want to gain weight, I can gain weight. If I want to lose weight, I will lose weight. If I want to be fit, I'll be fit.

Writing may be either the record of a deed or a deed. It is nobler when it is a deed.

You're just always growing. I feel like it's been very fast growth, but super exciting and I know I'll look back and feel like 'Yes, things were stressful, but it was also such an exciting time.'

There is no other who experiences your thoughts or your feelings.

The truth can never be wrong, even if no one hears it.

I claim to have been a lifelong and wholly disinterested friend of the British people.

But you'd have a job to find many of my poems which would seem to be very influenced by a particular person.