What goes best with a cup of coffee? Another cup.

As performers grow older, I reckon there are two ways they can go. They can either be up there, playing more deeply from their guts than ever, or they can be phoning it in so crassly that it leaves a lump in your throat as you leave the venue at the end of the show.

I'm not exactly ambitious as much as I have a very good realization of what I am and what I am capable of.

You can't right the wrongs because you'll never understand the cause and you'll be too busy dodging the effect.

Rarely do I do film press because I'm so low on the food chain of the movie, and for me it's just this thing I did for four weeks before the next tour started.

The destructive power of a lie is stronger than the truth.

What does New York sound like? For me, the Charlie Parker at the Royal Roost recordings on the Savoy label are the total embodiment of the New York music experience.