Change is inevitable in music - things change.

I want to be the force which is truly for good.

All a musician can do is to get closer to the source.

I'd like to point out to people the divine in a musical language that transcends words. I want to speak to their souls.

My goal is to live the truly religious life, and express it in my music. If you live it, when you play there's no problem because the music is part of the whole thing. To be a musician is really something. It goes very, very deep. My music is the spiritual expression of what I am - my faith, my knowledge, my being.

Sometimes I wish I could walk up to my music as if for the first time, as if I had never heard it before. Being so inescapably a part of it, I'll never know what the listener gets, what the listener feels, and that's too bad.

The first time I heard Bird play, it hit me right between the eyes.