I used to take my mother to Yosemite. When I turned 14, I got my driver's license, and that's where she'd want to go, so I'd go take her there for two weeks.

What I want to happen is to be really creative, and to play something new in the improvisations, every time.

You have to be taught to hate.

I prefer no one to teach me. I prefer to swing on my own.

I played a lot of sports and it's the plays in basketball that weren't worked out that are the ones that are just fantastic that you remember. We don't know the power that's within our own bodies.

I had the first integrated Army band in World War II.

I'm always hoping for the nights that are inspired where you almost have an out of body experience