Love is indescribable and unconditional. I could tell you a thousand things that it is not, but not one that it is. Either you have it or you haven't; there's no proof of it.

Somehow I suspect that if Shakespeare were alive today, he might be a jazz fan himself.

Simplicity is a most complex form

I like any and all of my associations with music: writing, playing, and listening. We write and play from our perspective, and the audience listens from its perspective. If and when we agree, I am lucky.

Every man prays in his own language.

Self-discipline, as a virtue or an acquired asset, can be invaluable to anyone.

I don’t believe in categories of any kind, and when you speak of problems between blacks and whites in the U.S.A. you are referring to categories again.