There's nothing new about the government protecting corporations and calling it the freeing of the world or bringing democracy to bereft nations.

Chris Christie is New Jersey's concern, not America's.

To my ears, jazz sounds better in warm weather and after the sun has gone down. While I will listen to some of my favorite jazz records in cooler weather, it's the warmer nights that really make them come alive. Something about those sounds and the heat of the night really makes it happen for me.

When the movie comes out, what anybody thinks of it doesn't really matter to me. I don't go to the wrap party. I don't go to the premiere.

I guess I am famous in a way. I would rather consider it recognizable - I think that is more logical. I don't feel famous.

In the late summer of 1986, the band I had been in for five years stopped playing. Suddenly, I was on my own. This new state of bandlessness was, at first, traumatic. When your group breaks up, a lot of broken parts hit the ground.

I think Naomi Klein was very astute with her book 'Shock Doctrine.' We make money on disaster.