You never know what you find once you really get going.

Growing up, I was very much interested in jazz music.

Emotions are the fuel to really move you along, that’s the only way you can create music. If you don’t feel any emotions, like it’s not going to happen.

The passion and spontaneity in music is all gone.

The problem that I have is with the music business. For some reason it seems almost impossible to get anything, any music, released which includes improvisation or soloing.

My mother is a singer, still performs today; she's a jazz singer.

I spent well over a year on the road with Sarah Vaughn. That was amazing.

I've been doing a lot of music for films and television for quite a few years.

Still for fun, I play the drums, but I don't do much recording with them.

Everything from now on will be done online - physical music media like the CD are dead in the water.

To be a success, dare to go beyond your fear and doubts.

I rarely wear tennis shoes. I'm 5' 8', I hate being short.

Try to take hold of your sensibility, and use it as if it were a faculty, like vision.

Bleeding heart, he’d called her. Well. He should know. He’d been the first to rip it to pieces.

Justice discards party, friendship, kindred, and is always, therefore, represented as blind.

For context, the budget of Don Jon is about half the budget of (500) Days of Summer. And (500) Days of Summer is about a third of the budget of the lowest-budget movies produced at a major studio.

Every project you do, you hope you learn something more as an actor.

It's a lot easier, I think, to be an actor in a movie than to spin a joke on a sitcom.

From dawn to dusk, winter to spring, summer & autumn; the contrasts of nature refresh the mind & renew our sense of balance

I must bridge the gap between adolescent glitter and mature glow.