Children are born with their own optimism. They have a clarity and a simplicity that we can only wish for.

Music is like a lover that I can't commit to, but I seem to always find myself in bed with.

I feel that musicians are in a fellowship, and that fellowship is a responsibility.

Once you encounter people who are really testing the limits of kindness, that's when you start to build up a shield and close yourself down.

I think leaders are incapable of the strength that passive resistance entails.

I think all musicians should understand that you have chosen not to be a soldier but a musician.

Music is my only guide. I don't care if people pigeonhole me. Miles Davis is my hero. He covered Cindy Lauper and Michael Jackson, and he didn't give a hoot about what the purists said.