You do what you love, or you get arrested.

You know, some people got no choice, and they can never find a voice, to talk with that they can even call their own. So the first thing that they see, that allows them the right to be, why they follow it, you know, it's called bad luck.

As the dead rise to live, the live sink to die, the currents are deep and raging inside.

I'll tell ya, I'm a genuinely nice guy. I really am. A real nice guy. But I think I'm temperamental.

These are really terribly rough times, and we really should try to be as nice to each other as possible.

There's only X amount of time. You can do whatever you want with that time. It's your time.

When I was in college, I had a jazz radio show. I called it 'Excursion on a Wobbly Rail,' after a Cecil Taylor song. I used to run around the Village following Ornette Coleman wherever he played.