My music is evidence of my souls will to live.

Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity.

Whatever coast he's on, a man should be himself. I don't write in any particular idiom, I write Charles Mingus.

I've got a feeling that if it's so easy for you - the struggle and the initiative are not as strong as they are for a person who has to struggle and therefore has more to say.

Most customers, by the time the musicians reach the second set, are to some extent inebriated. They don't care what you play anyway.

In my music, I'm trying to play the truth of what I am.

Anybody can make the simple complecated. Creativity is making the complecated simple.